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parent; pale brown transverse blotches across the segments; the 

 crossed transverse blotch on segment 2 is specially strongly marked ; 

 posterior margin broadly parabolic, with few long hairs on posterior 

 margin of each segment. 



MENOPON ALBEMARLEI sp. nov. 



(PI. XXXI, fig. 5.) 



One female from Camarhynchus productus from Albemarle and a 

 young female from Geospiza fuliginosa from same island. 



Female. — Body, length 1.89 mm., width .95 mm.; color pale 

 brown, with brown transverse blotches and dark brown bands, pro- 

 thoi-ax large, and metathorax small. Head, length .37 mm., width 

 71mm.; semilunar obtusely angled front, shallow ocular emargina- 

 tions ; front with a pair of long hairs, another on side followed by two 

 prickles, then four long hairs in front of the ocular emargination ; 

 antennae when outstretched projecting beyond the margin of the head 

 by length of last segment ; temporal margin round with five long hairs, 

 of which two are very long, and a few prickles ; occipital margin con- 

 cave with four long hairs ; a small fleck, dark brown ocular blotch and 

 dark brown occipital margin; color pale brown. Prothorax very 

 large, with produced lateral obtuse angles, bearing one prickle and one 

 long hair, which is the terminal one in a series of fourteen hairs ranged 

 along the rounded posterior margin of the segment. Metathorax small, 

 hardly wider than prothorax, with diverging sides, straight or slightly 

 convex posterior margin ; along the sides a few short prickles, in the 

 posterior angles with a long hair, then a prickle, and then a series of 

 sixteen hairs ranged along the posterior margin. Legs pale, with 

 longish scattered hairs. Abdomen ovate, with one long hair and 

 several short ones rising along posterior angles, and a series of hairs 

 along posterior margin ; color pale brown, each segment with broad 

 transverse subtriangular brown blotches and lateral bands. 



MENOPON INCERTUM Kellogg. 



Kellogg, New Mallophaga, 11, p. 533, pi. lxxiii, fig. 2, 1896. — Kellogg, 

 List of Mallophaga, p. 79, 1899. 



Many specimens, males, females and immature, from Geospiza 

 fuliginosa from Albemarle and Narboro, G. conirostris from Hood, 

 G.y(9r//5 from Albemarle, G. sp. from Chatham, Nesomimus parvulus 

 from Narboro and Albemarle, N. macdonaldi from Chatham and 

 Gardner, A^. carrzngiontiromBarrmgton, Certhldea albemarleiixova. 

 Albemarle, C. becki from Wenman, Camarhynchus productus from 



