Two new species of the sucking lice (Hoplopleuridae, Anoplura) from Rattus (Muridae, Rodentia) in Thailand

The adult and two nymphal stages of Hoplopleura kitti sp.nov. from Rattus berdmorei Blyth, and the adult stage of Polyplax pricei sp.nov. from Rattus niveiventer Hodgson are described and illustrated.

I thank Dr K. C. Emerson, 2704 N. Kensington Street, Arlington, Virginia 22207 for making these specimens available to me for this study. I am grateful to Dr Edwin F. Cook of the University of Minnesota for reading the manuscript.

A new species of Hoplopleura from Thailand, with notes and description of nymphal stages of Hoplopleura captiosa Johnson (Anoplura)

The adult stage and nymph 2 of Hoplopleura johnsonae sp.nov. and the nymphal stages of H. captiosa Johnson are described. The morphology of Hoplopleura nymphs and the infraspecific variations of H. captiosa Johnson are discussed, and a key to the seven species of Hoplopleura Enderlein known in Thailand is also presented.

I am grateful to Dr K. C. Emerson, Arlington, Virginia, and Dr Zofia Wegner, Gdansk-Wrzeszcz, Poland, for the loan of materials on which this work was based. I am also indebted to Dr Phyllis T. Johnson, University of California at Irvine, and Dr Edwin F. Cook, University of Minnesota, for their suggestions as to this species complex and reading the manuscript.