486 KELLOGG AND KUWANA 



few prickles, and one on occipital margin of the produced temples ; 

 four long hairs in occipital margin ; a small, blackish-brown ocular 

 fleck, chestnut brown ocular blotch ; the mandibles black-tipped, the 

 other mouth parts brown. Prothorax with pi'oduced lateral angles 

 obtuse, bearing two prickles and one long hair ; a series of ten long 

 hairs in a rounding posterior margin ; a narrow transverse line in front 

 of the middle with four short bristles along the line. Metathorax with 

 divergent sides, one eighth narrower than head, with nearly straight 

 posterior margin, bearing a series of long hairs ; in each lateral angle 

 several small prickles and the terminal hair of posterior series ; a trans- 

 verse row of six short spines in front of middle of segment. Legs 

 concolorous with head, with scattered rather long hairs. Abdomen 

 broadly ovale, with a narrow transverse band across all segments except 

 last one ; in the anterior angles of each transverse band a rather large 

 curving comma-like chitinous band ; the segments with fine hairs on 

 lateral margin, with one series of long hairs in each segment ; segment 

 9 pale, posterior margin rounded. 



Female. — Body, length 1.63 mm., width .86 mm.; head, length 

 .31 mm., width .63 mm. ; color paler than male; transverse bands of 

 abdominal segments not distinct ; posterior margin of last abdominal 

 segment with fine hair fringe. 



MENOPON SNODGRASSI sp. nov. 



(PI. XXXI, fig. 3.) 



One female from Coccyzus ?nelaitocoryfhus from Chatham. 



Female. — Body, length 1.55 mm., width .8 mm. ; being thus broad 

 and short ; golden yellow with broad, transverse, abdominal blotches 

 and dark brown lateral border; head with distinct dark markings. 

 Head, length .4 mm., width .63 mm. ; broad and heavy, front broad, 

 flatly rounded, with one short hair near the middle, then four short 

 ones and then two longish ones, the hindmost one very short, being 

 almost in the lateral angle just in front of the ocular emargination ; 

 palpi short, not reaching the margin ; temples expanded, with three 

 long hairs and three very long hairs ; occipital margin concave, straight 

 in the middle, with two long hairs, numerous prickles ; large black 

 ocular fleck ; an irregular blackish-brown ocular blotch, which con- 

 nects with the occipital margin by dark brown occipital bands. Pro- 

 thorax ; the part of the prothorax not concealed by the head is almost 

 of the shape of a semicircle ; three long hairs in each lateral angle ; 

 posterior margin without hairs ; the transverse chitin bar distinct. 

 Metathorax larger and wider than prothorax, but narrower than 



