Johnston and Harrison. — Mallophaga from the Kermadecs. 363 



Art. XXXVIII. — On a Collection of Mallophaga from the Kermadecs. 



By T. Harvey Johnston, M.A. ; D.Sc., Queensland University, Brisbane, 

 and Launcelot Harrison, Sydney. 



Communicated by A. Hamilton. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosojihical Society, 6th September, 1911.] 



The material which forms the subject of this paper was collected by the 

 expedition of New Zealand naturalists which visited the Kermadec Islands 

 in 1907-8 under the guidance of Messrs. Tom Iredale and W. K. B. 

 Oliver. From the labels we judge that it was collected chiefly by Mr. 

 W. L. Wallace. It was forwarded by Mr. Oliver to the Dominion 

 Museum, Wellington, and the Curator of that institution, Mr. A. Hamil- 

 ton, has been kind enough to place it in our hands for description. 



The Mallophaga collected comprise thirteen species from five bird hosts, 

 and one species from a mammal, the introduced domestic goat. To these 

 we have added two species taken by one of us from a skin of Oestrelata 

 neglecta Schl, forwarded by Mr. Oliver to Mr. A. F. Basset Hull, of 

 Sydney. As Mr. Iredale's notes (1910) mention about thirty species of 

 birds observed on the group, it is obvious that nothing like a complete 

 collection of the Mallophagan fauna was obtained. 



Of the sixteen forms reviewed, we have described six as new species, 

 one as a new variety of a known form, eight have been ascribed to already 

 known species, and consideration of one species has been deferred. 



List of Hosts, with Parasites. 



Pelagodroma marina Lath. 



Ancistrona procdlariae Westw. 



Lipeurus languidus Kell. & Kuwana. 



Lipeurus exiguus Kell. & Kuwana. 

 Oestrelata neglecta Schl. 



Philopterus fuscoclypcatus nobis. 



Lipeurus diversus Kellogg var. excavatus nobis. 



Lipeurus Jcermadecensis nobis. 

 Charadrius dominions Mvill. 



Philopterus ivallacei nobis. 



Degeeriella oraria Kellogg. 



Colpocephalum timidum Kellogg. 

 Numenius variegatus Scop. 



Philopterus armatus nobis. 



Philopterus numeniicola nobis. 



Degeeriella oliveri nobis. 

 Sturnus vulgaris Linn. 



Philopterus leontodon Nitzsch. 



Degeeriella nebulosa Burmeister. 



Menopon sp. 

 Capra hi reus Linn. 



Trichodectes climax Nitzsch. 



