NEW MALLOPHAGA. I47 



most distinct portion a short transverse line, especially 

 noticeable on segments 1-6; the posterior angles of the 

 segments, which hardly project, bear each a long hair, a 

 very few scattered small hairs on lateral margin ; numer- 

 ous short non-pustulated hairs scattered over the surface 

 of the body; last segment pale with two longish lateral 

 marginal hairs, and convex behind with a short fringe of 

 fine transparent hairs. 



Colpocephalum funebre n. sp. (Plate xii, fig. 7). 



Two females from two specimens of the Glaucous- 

 winged Gull, Larus glaucescens, Bay of Monterey, Cali- 

 fornia. This species resembles fuscipes. 



Description of female. Body, length 3.1 mm., width 

 1.5 mm. ; large with comparatively small head and thorax; 

 dark brown, with black markings. 



Head, length 5 mm., width .78 mm.; palpus barely or 

 not at all projecting beyond margin of forehead; antenna 

 projecting slightly; front flatly rounded with eleven hairs 

 on each side between middle of front and ocular emar- 

 gination, of those on the true front the second and fifth 

 longer than the others and of those on the side one 

 very long; ocular emargination deep, narrow; eye large, 

 simple, hemispherical, the ocular fringe prominent; of 

 the hairs on the temporal margin four are long; occi- 

 pital margin not deeply concave, bare; color dark brown 

 with a narrow black border extending more or less dis- 

 tinctly entirely around the head; on the sides of the fore- 

 head the border is broken into spots, and along the front 

 it is sinuate and is narrowly margined in front by a pale, 

 almost uncolored space; on each lateral region of the 

 forehead there are three small circular uncolored spots 

 from each of which arises a short hair; on under side 

 of head, a distinct large occipital signature; narrow oc- 



