Some Ectoparasites in the South African Museum. 289 



3 c? c? , 5 5 J , 5 imra. Melierax canorns (Chanting Goshawk). 

 Philipstown, C.P. 



7 3 $ , 10 ? ? , 3 irnm. Circus macrurus (Pale Harrier). Philips- 

 town, C.P. 



NIRMUS VULGATUS, Kellogg (1896). 



Nirmus vulgatus, Kellogg, New Mallophaga, ii. pp. 496-498, pi. Ixvii. 



f. 5 (1896). 

 $ , 2 $ $,2 imm. Passer arcuatus. Cape Town, x : 12. 



2 3 ' $ . 2 5> 2 , 2 imm. Passer arcuatus. March, 1913. 



cT. Amadina erythrocephaia (Red-headed Weaver Bird). Philips- 

 town, C.P. 



Kellogg and Paine (Bull. Bnt. Ees. vol. ii. p. 148, July, 1911) 

 record "numerous specimens from the starling and one from an 

 owl, Malachal, Egyptian Sudan (H. H. King). This is the first 

 record of this American species, which is found widely distributed on 

 American passerine birds, from a host in the Old World." 



But the species also occurs on Palaearctic passerines ; when there- 

 fore the synonymy of the group is better understood it will not be 

 surprising to find vulgatus give way to an older name. 



NIRMUS ZONABIUS, N. 



3 . Nirmus zonarius, Nitzsch, in Giebel, Ins. Epiz. p. 166 (1874). 

 <? , 2 J 5 . Tringa subarquata. 



We use the name zonarius for the Nirmus of the general type 

 cingulatus, got on a variety of small waders. Zonarius, though 

 a good species, is extraordinarily like its larger congener ; but the 

 genitalia are different. 



FAMILY GONIODIDAE. 



GEN. GONIOCOTES, Burmeister. 

 Goniocotes, Burmeister, Handb. Ent. vol. 2, p. 431 (1835). 



GONIOCOTES BIFASCIATUS, Piaget (1885). 



Goniocotes bifasciatus , Piaget, Les Pe'diculines, Suppl. p. 47, pi. v. 



f. 6 (1885). 

 Four lots from Spheniscus demersus 



(a) ? , (d) Table Bay, 1913. 



(b) 58 $ $ , 81 ? 2 . 



(c) 62 $ $ , 56 ? ? , 15 imm. 

 (e) 34 3 $ , 40 $ ? , 10 imm. 



