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three irregular subterminal blotches between veins Cu2 and M2 ; a 

 series of black dots along costa, increasing in size near apex ; a small 

 black patch at origin of veins Cui and M3 and a similar one on second 

 anal vein obliquely below it ; inner margin with several fine black 

 strigae; on outer margin a series of black dashes, of which the apical 

 ones are perpendicular to the margin, that between veins Mi and R$ 

 being the longest and most prominent ; the lower ones are oblique and 

 bordered inwardly with white. Secondaries dark gray, lighter ^ 

 base, with traces of marginal row of white spots; fringes on both 

 wings checkered white and gray. 



Beneath much as above; white subterminal patches less prominent; 

 terminal black dashes very clear; secondaries, lighter than above, white, 

 sprinkled heavily with gray; veins bordered terminally with a series 

 of black dots. 



Expanse, 29 mm. 



Habitat. Eureka, Utah (T. Spalding). i <5 . Type Coll. 

 Barnes. 



Somewhat similar to our species palmata, but differing in 

 venation. As it was late to include a figure in our revision of 

 North American Cossidae, just published, we reproduce it on 

 the accompanying plate, together with ethela N. & D., of which 

 species the above mentioned work only figures a very poor 

 specimen, the only available one at the time. 



Mallophaga from Islands off Lower California. 



By V. L. KELLOGG and W. M. MANN, Stanford University, 



California. 



The following determinations and descriptions of new spe- 

 cies of bird-infesting Mallophaga are made from a collection 

 taken by R. C. McGregor in 1897 from birds of the islands off 

 the coast of Baja California. The determinations of the bird- 

 hosts were made by McGregor, an accomplished ornithologist. 

 The parasites were taken from the fresh bird specimens. 



The collection is of special interest on account of the relation 

 of the host species to the birds of the Galapagos Islands, from 

 which two collections of Mallophagan parasites have been 

 studied at Stanford (see "Mallophaga from Birds of the Gala- 

 pagos Islands," by Kellogg and Kuwana, in Proc. Wash. Acad. 



