470 KELLOGG AND KUWANA 



Fejnale. — Body, length 3.16 mm., width .66 mm.; white, with 

 black marginal markings, chestnut brown, median abdominal mark- 

 ings. Head, length .6 mm., width .5 mm. ; conical, clypeus truncate 

 or slightly concave in front, a short hair in each anterior angle and 

 several other short hairs in the lateral margin between it and trabeculae ; 

 temporal margin flatly rounding, with two longish hairs and two 

 prickles, one of the prickles being between the hairs, and the other 

 behind the last one ; occipital margin straight, bare ; trabeculae small, 

 but distinct ; antennae uncolored, except the tip of last segment which 

 is pale brown ; eyes conspicuous, with one long hair and one prickle ; 

 anterior part of clypeus transparent ; margin of forehead with narrow 

 interrupted black line, and an irregular blotch near extremity of head ; 

 temporal margins with narrow black lines extending behind the eyes. 

 Prothorax quadrangular, posterior angle with a single long hair, an 

 interrupted dark brown, wide, lateral border extending inward along 

 posterior angles. Metathorax pentagonal ; media of lateral margin 

 with a black blotch ; one prickle and a group of five long hairs in 

 posterior angles. Legs concolorous with body, except tip of tarsae and 

 claws which are brown. Abdomen long, with segments 4 and 5 

 widest, a black lateral marginal blotch on each segment ; segments 3 

 to 7 with two weak hairs on median posterior margin of each leg; 

 small median blotches on segments 3 to 7 ; segment 9 emarginated, 

 with a few terminal hairs ; segments with i to 2 or 3 longish hairs on 

 the posterior angles. 



NIRMUS CURVILINEATUS sp. nov. 



(PI. XXIX, fig. 4.) 



A male from Nesopelia galapagoenis from Narboro and a female 

 from Oceanitis gracilis from Albemarle. This is an extraordinary 

 instance of distribution, and w^hen coupled with the fact that the new 

 species is of the fuscus group of Nirmi^ species found almost exclu- 

 sively on raptorial birds, simply balks explanation. The new form 

 differs from the typical fuscus in having the transverse abdominal 

 blotches continuous from side to side of abdomen, and the transverse 

 series of pustulated hairs on each abdominal segment curving instead 

 of straight. 



Male. — Body, length 1.86 mm., width, 55 mm. ; pale brown, with 

 narrow distinct brown margin, the transverse abdominal blotches con- 

 tinuous from side to side of abdomen ; abdomen narrow, head heavy 

 and rounding. Head, length .53 mm., width .4 mm. ; forehead broad, 

 parabolic in front, with narrow brown border; four marginal hairs on 



