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The Ohio Naturalist. 



[Vol VIII, No. 7, 



Description from twelve specimens in the collection of Pro- 

 fessor Jas. S. Hine, of Ohio State University, taken by him from 

 the Flicker, Colaptes auratus, at Columbus, Ohio. 



These forms show much similarity to Menopon praecursor 

 Kell. and may possibly be onty a variety. However, on account 

 of the host, from which heretofore no Menopon has been reported, 

 the difference in prothorax, the hairs of occipital region, and the 

 more elongated body I have assigned it specific rank. 



7. Menopon titan Piaget. (New host.) Les Pediculines, 

 1880, p. 5();3, plate XL, fig. 7. 



Fig. 1. G, Ph3^sostomum invadens Kell., female from Dendroica 

 pennsylvanica. H, Menopon colaptis, female from Colaptes auratus. 

 I, Docophorus syrnii, female from Syrnium nebulosum. 



Taken from Phalacrocorax dilophus by Professor Jas. S. 

 Hine at Columbus, O. Professor Kellogg, Kellogg and Chap- 

 man, Mallophaga from Birds of California, New Mallophaga III, 

 1899, describes the variety incomposittim from Phalacrocorax 

 penicilliatus. The specimens from P. dilophus conform very 

 closely with Piaget 's description. 



8. Eureum cimicoides Nitzsch. (New host.) Piaget, Les 

 Pediculines, 1880, p. 008, Supplement, 1885, p. 137, Plate XV, 

 fig. 2. 



Two specimens taken from Chaetura pelagica by Professor 

 Jas S. Hine, at Columbus, O. In Kellogg and Chapman, New 

 Mallophaga III, p. 133 et seq., reference is made to the seemingly 

 inadequate ground for the establishment of the Genus Eureum, 

 and also to the suspicion on the part of Piaget that the forms so 



