Foreword 



Presented in this volume is a summary of more than 60 years of taxonomic 

 investigations by a pioneering and world-recognized^authority on neo- 

 tropical Mallophaga who, in 82 pubhcations, has added to the Hterature 

 6 famihes and subfamihes, 53 genera and subgenera, and 866 species and 

 subspecies, the overwhehiiing majority of which are still recognized as valid. 



The manuscript of the "Catalog of Forms Described as New," as pre- 

 pared by Mr. Carriker, was originally submitted for publication on 

 October 11, 1961. He submitted, for incorporation into the Catalog, 

 material from his new publications as they appeared and he later added a 

 complete bibliography of his works. 



The Catalog entries and the Bibliography were checked by Florence A. 

 Ruhoflf, of the Department of Entomology. 



Five papers left in various stages of completion by Mr. Carriker at the 

 time of his death, July 27, 1965, were prepared for publication by Smith- 

 sonian Research Associate K. C. Emerson, who also provided U.S. National 

 Museum catalog numbers for the species listed in the Catalog, and added 

 to the Catalog scientific names and other data from the five posthumous 

 papers, which are published herewith. Dr. Emerson has otherwise given 

 generously of his time in reading and correcting the proofs and in resolving 

 scientific questions that arose during the course of publication. 



Mr. Carriker freely exchanged paratypes with many individuals and 

 institutions. No attempt has been made in the Catalog to account for all 

 paratypes of the species described by him, or to list the paratypes, in his 

 collection, described by other authors. Paratypes of many of the species 

 described by him are in the collections of the British Museum (Natural 

 History) and of Dr. Emerson. The U.S. National Museum has paratypes 

 of most of those species of which the holotype is in another museum. 



Richard S. Cowan, 

 Director, Museum of Natural History. 



