Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 305 A New Mallophagan. By E. A. MaGREGOR, U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Batesburg, S. Carolina. Several male specimens of a somewhat curious Colpo-cephalum were taken from the screech owl Otus asio maccal'.i at Dallas, Texas, by the writer in January of 1911. Professor Kellogg validated my convictions that the species was new to science in a communication in part as follows: "* * * but it has such produced and amputated temples and such marked differences in the thorax, that it cannot be put with C. sub-pachygaster * * *." The latter species is a well distributed owl Colpocephalum with broad head and broad abdomen and is perhaps closest to the present species. Colpocephalum painei sp. nov. Male, 'Length 1.30 mm., width across abdomen .57 mm. Pale yel-low in color with no pronounced markings. Head. Length .39 mm., width .53 mm., being thus almost half again as wide as long. Front blunt, very slightly emarginate with no trace of hairs or spines. One long, strong hair on the very prominent angle in front of the deep ocular emargination and two shorter, weaker hairs on the sides before it. Neither the antennae nor the palpi nor-mally projecting. The eye is large, prominent, with a large, black fleck. A narrow, chestnut-yellow, bow-shaped clypeal band. Ocular blotches deep-chestnut, inflated-comma-shaped. The ocular fringe ex-tends to the angle of the temples and is continued onto the latter by a line of four or five short bristles. Temples nearly parallel to one another with two long, very strong hairs near the hinder angle pre-ceded by a shorter, weaker one. Occiput strongly concave, for the most part pale, with a short, transverse, bow-shaped bar connecting laterally with the enlarged ends of two bands which arch obliquely backward to the occipital margin. Occipital bands wanting. Thorax. Length .25 mm,, width .52 mm. Prothorax semi-lenticular, the anterior margin rounded, while the posterior margin is much more angulated. The latter bears a long hair at each lateral angle, another pair about half way to the middle, and a pair of somewhat shorter hairs near the rounded median angle. The transverse bar is narrow and indistinct, and the curving chestnut-yellow, longitudinal lines be-yond the ends are clearly defined and are continuous with the oblique bands of the occiput. A small, crescent-shaped marking occurs on each side at the junction of the pro-and mrtathoracic margins and I'lHToaches slightly on the latter segment. Metathorax short, in shape that of an anteriorly emarginated trapezium, with flatly-convex pos-
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