MALLOPHAGA 319 



each segment with a pale transverse band, darkening on the posterior margin, and the 

 lateral margin interrupted by a narrow uncoloured submarginal band parallel with the 

 lateral margins of the abdomen ; last segment broadly rounding, without dark markings, 

 with two long hairs and a short spine on the lateral margin ; genitalia dark brown, 

 extending forward into segment 5 and showing through the body distinctly. 



%. Body, length i-i6 mm. : width -26 mm. ; head, length -y^ mm. ; width •38 mm.; 

 much paler in colour than male, only showing dark markings on the head. 



Specimens from Vestiaria cocci iiea, Hiinatioiic sanguinea (Hilo, Hawaii Island) 

 and Chlorodrepanis virens (lao Valley, Maui Island). 



(3) Mcuopoii hilciisis [sp. nov.]. 



%. Body, length '91 mm. ; width -48 mm. ; short, broad, pale fuscous without well- 

 defined markings. 



Plate X. fig. 13. 



Head, length -21 mm. ; width -4 mm. ; front broadly rounding with two short hairs 

 each side of the front ; one very long and one shorter hair in front of the ocular emar- 

 gination ; ocular emargination distinct but shallow ; eye large, quite filling the angle, 

 distinctly cleft with a large ocular Heck and two stiff prickles, protruding with one very 

 long hair and two shorter hairs, several spines and prickles on the rounding margin ; one 

 long and two short spines on the dorsal surface each side of occipital margin, which is 

 slightly concave with a spine and one long hair each end side of the median line ; a 

 second long hair on the outer angle of the occipital margin and the temple : colour of 

 head pale fuscous, narrow dark band on the front broadening into a blotch each side 

 of the clypeus ; with dark black-brown ocular bands, and narrow triangular occipital 

 blotches meeting in the median line and extending along the posterior margin of 

 the temples. 



[167] Prothorax wide, anterior angles round with a short spine ; six long pustulated 

 hairs and a spine on the rounding lateral posterior margin ; a dorsal prickle at each end 

 of the distinct transverse chitin bar ; colour fuscous. Metathorax with slightly diverging 

 sides with three strong marginal spines, two long hairs and prickles in the posterior 

 angles ; a series of weak hairs and one spine along the posterior margin : colour dull 

 fuscous. Legs concolorous with the body, with darker marginal markings. 



Abdomen broadly ovate, with a long hair, a shorter hair and a prickle in the 

 posterior angle of the segments ; a series of weak hairs along the posterior margin ; last 

 segment narrow, with a series of hairs on the posterior margin which has a slight median 

 angulation ; colour fuscous, slightly darker on the posterior margin of the segment, a 

 pale band on the posterior margin of segment 6, segment 7 deeper fuscous than other 

 segments. 



One specimen from Vestiaria coccinca (Hilo, Hawaii Island). 



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