NEW MALLOPHAGA. 



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Merganser senator. 



Docophorus icterodea. 



Lipeurus temporalis. 

 squalidus. 

 Merganser americanus. 



Lipeurus squalidus. 



Trinoton luridum. 

 lituratum. 

 Anas boscas. 



Docophorns icterodes. 



Trinoton Inridum. 

 lituratum. 

 Anas americana. 



Trinoton Inridum. 

 Anas carolinensis. 



Trinoton Inridum. 

 Spatula clypeata. 



Trinotcn Inridum. 

 Dafila acuta. 



Docophorus icterodes. 



Trinoton Inridum. 



lituratum ( ? ) 

 Aythya americana. 



Docophorns icterodes. 

 Aythya affinis. 



Docophorus icterodes. 

 Charitonetta albeola. 



Lipeurus squalidus. 



Oidemia deglandi. 



Docophorus icterodes. 

 Oidemia perspicillata. 



Docophoras icterodes. 



Lipeurus constrictus. 

 Erismatura rubida. 



Docophorus icterodes . 

 pertusus. 



Trinoton Inridum. 

 Ardea egretta. 



Colpocephalam laticeps. 

 Fulica americana. 



Docophorus pertusus. 



Lipeurus picturatus. 

 longipilus. 



Oncophorus advena. 



Laemobothrium atrum. 



Menopontridens var.pacificum. 

 Recurvirostra americana. 



Nirmus signatus. 

 pileus. 



Coipocephalum uniforme. 



Menopon indistinctum. 

 Charadrius squatarola. 



Docophorus fuliginosus. 

 Charadrius dominions. 



Nirmus orarius. 



Coipocephalum timidum. 



Position among Insects. 



What the position of the Mallophaga among insects is, 

 is still a moot question, as indeed, strictly speaking, is the 

 position of any one of the groups. The Mallophaga by 

 reason of their habits have been constantly associated in 

 entomological literature with the Pediculidag. It is hardly 

 worth while here to trace the Mallophaga in their tortuous 

 path through the various schemes of insect classification 

 from the times of Redi to the present day. It has not 

 been until comparatively recent years that the facts of 

 structure and life history upon which the classification of 

 any group depends were known in the case of the Mallo- 



