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X. On the Mallophaga of tJie Spitsbergen Expedition* By 

 James Waterston, B.D., D.Sc, F.E.S., F.Z.S., 

 Assistant in the Department of Entomology, British 

 Museum. 



[Read May 3rd, 1922.] 



(Pubhshed by permission of the Trustees of the 

 British Museum.) 



The Mallophaga secured by members of the expedition 

 are few in number, only 28 examples representing 7 species 

 and 5 genera having been placed in my hands for report. 

 The hosts examined were as follows : Hooded Crow, 

 Barnacle Goose, Pink Footed Goose, Grey Phalarope, 

 Purple Sandpiper, Fulmar Petrel, and about one-third of 

 the Mallophaga known from these birds were found. 



In the notes given below Harrison's arrangement (" Para- 

 sitology," vol. ix. No. 1, Oct. 1916) of the Mallophaga has 

 been followed, while for the hosts the names given in the 

 Rev. F. C. Jourdain's recent paper (" The Ibis," ser. xi, 

 vol. iv. No. 1, p. 159, Jan. 1922) have been adopted. 



No sucking lice were, apparently, secured. 



MALLOPHAGA. 



I. AMBLYCERA. 



Family MENOPONIDAE Mjoberg. 



Genus MENOPON Nitzsch. 



Menopon lutescens Burm. 



Menopon lutescens Burmeister. Handbuch der Ento- 

 mologie, Bd. 2, p. 440 (1838). 



$. Purple Sandpiper. Klaas Billen Bay (C. S. Elton 

 leg.), 15. viii. 1921. 



I have followed Piaget (" Les PedicuUnes," p. 447, Leide 

 1880) in interpreting this species, which has a wide range 

 of hosts amongst shore- and sea-birds. 



* Results of The Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen. 

 No. 9. 



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