MALLOPHAGA 307 



Abdomen ovate, widening gradually to segment 4 and rounding rapidly to seg- 

 ment 9, lateral angles rounding with one to three long hairs ; many long, pustulated, 

 dorsal hairs in a transverse series in the posterior margin of each segment ; lateral 

 transverse triangular blotches dark chestnut-brown, darkening slightly on the lateral 

 margin ; the posterior margin interrupted by the uncoloured pustulations ; median 

 portion of the abdomen uncoloured ; segment 8 entirely brown ; segment 9 narrowly 

 emarginate, a few short prickles on the posterior margin ; genital blotches distinctly 

 dark brown, broadly rounding on segment 5 and rapidly tapering to sharp angle on 

 segment 8 : two distinct pustulations in the lateral angles on segment 6. 



[157] Z- Body, length i' i;^ mm.; width, '5 mm.; htjad, length '5 mm.; width 

 ■48 mm. ; abdomen broadly ovate, last segment flatly rounding, with very long hair in 

 the lateral angles; segments 6 — 9 entirely chestnut-brown. 



Specimens from Chlorodrepanis virens (Kahului, Maui Island, and Jao Valley', 

 Maui Island). 



(3) Docopliorits fiiligiiiosiis /laivaiicnsis [var. nov.]. 



Docophorus fuliginosus Iiaivaiioisis Kellogg, New Mallophaga, i. 1S96, p. 80, 

 PI. iii, fig. 2; List of Mallophaga, 1899, p. 47. 



Measurements of male, body length 1 '6 mm., width "75 mm., head length -6 mm., 

 width '6 mm., abdomen broadly ovate to subcircular, distinctly turbinate, strongly 

 coloured, showing but little light uncoloured median region, segments i — 6 with series 

 of strong pustulations. 



Many specimens from Charadrius doniinicus fuivus (Kahului, Maui Island) and 

 from Hefcractitis incanus (Hito [?Hilo], Hawaii Island) may be referred to the 

 species fuliginosus, but they show well-marked varietal differences. 



NiRMUS. 



(i) Nirviiis niiuhacusis\%'^. nov.]. 



%. Body length i'S3 mm., width -40 mm., pale golden brown. 



Plate X. fig. 2. 



Head, length '65 mm. ; width -38 mm. ; narrowly elongate, conical, with the clypeal 

 margin broadly rounding ; its uncoloured clypeal region expanding in front of the 

 suture ; seven hairs on the margin of forehead, two of which are longer than others and 

 arise dorsally ; antennae with second segment longest, and segment 5 longer than 

 segments 3 or 4 ; eye not prominent, with one hair, temples with sides nearly parallel, 

 one long pustulated hair in the broadly rounded temporal angle and three short prickles 

 on the margin ; occipital margin slightly concave, without hairs or prickles ; general 



' " las Valley " in the original. D. S. 



