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MALLOPHAGA FROM BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 

 By V. L. Kellogg and B. L. Chapman, Stanford University, California'. 



(Plate X.) 



[155] The INIallophaga (biting lice) identified and described in this paper were 

 collected by INIr Richard C. MacGregor from birds shot and identified by himself in the 

 Hawaiian Islands, and constitute the first collection of insects of this order made in the 

 islands. The collection includes twenty species of parasites taken from twelve species 

 of birds. Of these twenty species fourteen are here named and described as new, four 

 are named and described as varieties of previously known species, while but two can be 

 considered typical representatives of already known species. Of the twelve bird species 

 composing the list of hosts, four are species peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands, and the 

 parasites of these hosts are all new species except the two taken from the Hawaiian 

 coot, Fulica alai. 



The collection is too small and the new species in it altogether too strongly in the 

 majority, to make profitable any attempt to compare the Mallophaga of Hawaii with 

 those of other regions. 



The occurrence of Lipeiirus docophoroidcs, the typical parasite of the California 

 partridges, on the introduced Indian " minha " is interesting, but is probably explained 

 by the ground-feeding habits of the "minha" and the introduction into Hawaii of the 

 partridges. Interesting also and not so readily explicable is the occurrence of Oncophorus 

 adena, a characteristic parasite of coots and found in the Hawaiian coot, on the forest 

 inhabiting honey-sucker, Vestiaria coccinea. 



The following is a list of the papers by Kellogg (as sole or joint author) constantly 

 referred to in the following pages by abbreviated titles. 



New Mallophaga, i ; Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laijoratory of the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, No. iv. 1896. 



New Mallophaga, u ; Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, No. vii. 1896. 



New Mallophaga, ui ; Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, No. xix. 1899. 



' Reprinted, by permission, from the Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Sept. 1902, 

 PP- 15s — 169, Pis. xiii, xiv, xv. The digits in square brackets give the original pagination. 



