MALLOPHAGA 315 



posteriorly ; darker brown lateral bands on all segments save the last, these lateral 

 bands interrupted interiorly by a pale line parallel with the lateral margins, last segment 

 broadh' rounded, pale \ellow to uncoloured posterior margin ; a few long weak hairs on 

 the margin and a series of short weak submarginal hairs. 



Specimens from Asio accipifiyiuus (Jao \'alley, Maui Island), and from Caradriiis 

 doiiiinicus fuhns (KahuUii, Maui Island). 



(4) Colpocephaluni coiispicitujii [sp. nov.]. 



Colpocephalum conspicuiwi %. Body, length i'28 mm.; width -^5 mm.; weakly 

 coloured, pale fuscous with conspicuous dark golden brown markings on the head, 

 thorax and abdomen. 



Plate X. hg. 9. 



Head, length "25 mm. ; width ^4 mm. ; front with slight median angle, one short 

 weak hair each side of the front : a slight angle in front of the palpi ; two long stiff hairs 

 on the slight elevation in front of the ocular emargination, three stiff hairs from the 

 ventral surface e.xtending beyond the margin ; eye large, slightly flattened with a black 

 ocular blotch: ocular fringe- distinct with few stiff hairs; temples broad with flatlv 

 convex lateral margins bearing several hairs of various lengths, two being pustulated ; 

 occipital margins broadly concave with one long hair, one short hair and one prickle 

 each side of the median line, ground colour pale fuscous with narrow dark brown ocular 

 border, meeting the paler clypeal blotches ; mandibles dark brown ; a pale brown 

 rectangular signature showing through the head. 



Prothorax ; anterior margin broadly convex; antero-lateral anodes obtuse, a strong- 

 angle on the lateral margin with one strong hair ; three long hairs on each lateral half 

 of the rounded posterior margin ; ground colour darker fuscous than head, dark brown 

 sternal markings showing through. Metathorax pentagonal, the me.solhorax and meta- 

 thorax distinctly separated ; sides of the metathorax diverging, one long hair and three 

 spines in the posterior angle, posterior margin with a series of long hairs ; colour dark 

 fuscous on the prothorax, darker on the mesothorax, dark chitinous band of coxae 

 showing through as a marginal border of the anterior angles ; sternal markings dark 

 intercoxal, lines consisting of a distinct wedge-shaped marking on the prosternum, pale 

 fuscous bordered posteriorly with a narrow dark band, and an indefinite blotch on the 

 metasternum tapering to a dark acute posterior angle. Legs concolorous with the body 

 with small brown markings. 



Abdomen elongate, elliptical, broadest on segment 5 ; posterior angles of segments 

 slightly extending each with one long hair and a spine in the angle ; a series of irregular 

 hairs on the posterior margin of segments, growing thinner medially ; last segment 

 abruptly narrower than segment 8, posterior margin rounding with a fringe of fine 

 [164] uncoloured hairs ; pale fuscous with distinctly darker lateral bands darker on the 

 posterior and inner margin ; a slight suggestion of transverse bands on segments 3 — 6. 



