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It is indeed strange to find Goniodes as a parasite of Anthus, a 

 member of the family Motacillidce, the Wagtails and Pipits, when 

 it properly belongs with the Gallinw and the Phasiani and such 

 fowl-like birds. G. aliceps Nitzsch was taken from Crypturus 

 macrurus and C. tao, and G. laticeps Piaget, from Tinamus julius 

 and T. robustus. These facts cause one to be somewhat skeptical 

 as to the validity of the present record. 



Menopon exsanguis sp. now (Fig. 4.) 



Six specimens, including two males, from a woodpecker, Cam- 

 pophilis melanoleucus Gm. (Rio Nhamunda, Brazil. Jan. 1912). 

 Two species of Menopon have previously been described from 

 woodpeckers, M. pici Denny 1 from Picus viridis (Great Britain), 

 and M. praecursor Kellogg 2 from Melanerpes uropygialis (Baja 

 California). The present species quite closely resembles M. pici 

 Denny, as described by Piaget, 3 but differs in a number of charac- 

 ters, being much smaller in size, with palpi projecting by but one 

 segment or less. Also, in M. exsanguis, the eye is very large and 

 somewhat irregular, extending from the inner termination of the 

 ocular emargination, back on the dorsal surface of the temple half 

 way to the posterior margin and not reaching the lateral margin of 

 the head at any point. General color pale, with darker, indefinite 

 markings on the head and thorax. 



Description of female: Head much broader than long, with front flatly rounded or 

 slightly angled, outline of head appearing triangular. A short hair on each side, on 

 the clypeus, a short distance from the center; another, of about the same size, at 

 the point where the palpi pass the margin and two more very minute ones between 

 the two above mentioned; three long hairs at short, regular intervals, before the 

 ocular emarginations; also a long hair on the dorsal surface, on each side, on a line 

 between the ocular emarginations and the mandibles. Emarginations narrow, not 

 deep, with a fringe of about ten short hairs. Eyes as described above, with a 



i Denny, Monograph, Anoplur. Brit. p. 219, pi. XX, fig. 5. 1842. 



' Kellogg, V. L. New Mallophaga III. Occ. Papers California Acad. Sci. VI. p. 46, pi. IV, 

 fig. 8. 1899. 



5 Piaget, E. Les P6diculines, Supplement, p. 93, p. X, fig. 3. 1885. 



