KELLOGG, MALLOI'HAOA. 46 



Female. Body, length 3 mm., wiclth 1.2 mm., strangely marked, the lateral 

 abdominal blotches projectiiig well inward, and the wliole head and thorax dark brown. 

 Head, length 0.8- mm., width O.nt mm.; thus being a little wider at the temples 

 than long, but forming nearly an equilateral triangle with rounded angles; clypeus 

 rounded and filled, except for very narrow clear anterior margin, by the large Signa- 

 tare with two strongly chitinized processes projecting from the postero-lateral angles; 

 six or seven prominent liair« arranged at regulär intervals on temporal margins. All 

 head dark brown, the occipital bands distinct. Prothorax, short quadrangular, with 

 straight posterior margin, all colored brown with narrow clear median longitudinal 

 line; a long and short hair in each postero-lateral angle. Metathorax but little wider 

 than prothorax, with posterior margin nearly straight; a group of three long hairs 

 rising from an uncolored space in each postero-lateral angle; whole segment dark 

 brown except an uncolored median longitudinal line. Abdomen elliptical with broad 

 ends; first segment all brown; 2"'' to ß*-'^ each with strong large lateral blotches, 

 blackish at margins, and bearing rather indistinct pustulations along posterior mar- 

 gin; 7"' segment with complete transverse band narrower in middle than at ends; 

 posterior segment slightly emarginate; a double transverse series of hairs on dorsum 

 of each abdominal segment, the ones rising from the colored regions with more or 

 less distinct pustulations. 



Male, smaller but otherwise similar except as regards the posterior end of 

 abdomen, which is slightly narrowly protuberant and rounded; the lateral abdominal 

 blotches project farther toward the center. 



Kilimandjaro-Meru: Natron Lakes. 



Docophonis icterodes Nitzsch. 



Males and females from Nyroc.a {Fuligula) capensis. The specimens are all 

 markedly paler than typical icferodes, and with the temples less flatly rounded, thus 

 giving the head a noticeably different shape. They might well be regarded as a new 

 variety of the species. 



Kilimandjaro-Meru: Natron Lakes. 



Docopliorus phitystoiuus Nitzsch. 



Males and females from BiUeo augur. The marked difference in the genital 

 blotch of the male from that of typical plaiyslomus with other slight differences might 

 well constitute a varietal distinction for the African specimens. 



Kilimandjaro : Kibonoto. 



Doeoiihonis splieiioithoru^ Nrrzscn. 



Typical males and females of this Docophorus of the spoon bill recorded from 

 Platalea alba and also from an owl, Asio nisuella. The specimens from the owl are 

 almost certainly stragglers. 



Kilimandjaro-Meru: Natron Lakes. 



