5IO CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Uebertragung geschehen." The species may be recog- 

 nized by the broad abdomen and the striking angulated 

 lateral bands of the abdomen, each segmental portion 

 projecting diagonally forward and inward and ending in 

 an indistinctly limited paling brown blotch. Taschenberg 

 says that the head of the male is a little longer than broad, 

 with deep emarginations at the bases of the antennae, and 

 with strongly angulated temporal margins between which 

 the head is a little narrower than it is just in front of the 

 antenna?. The female figured by me measures as follows : 

 Body, length 2.25 mm., width 1.16 mm.; head, length 

 .62 mm., width .72 mm. 



Goniocotes. 

 Goniocotes creber n. sp. (Plate lxix, fig. 3.) 



An extraordinary number of specimens on a Silver 

 Pheasant, Phasianus nycthemerus, presented to the De- 

 partment of Zoology of this University, by Mr. A. C. 

 Robison of San Francisco. In addition to the great 

 number of individuals of this Goniocotes on the bird, 

 there were present in more than ordinary numbers the 

 giant Goniodes cervinicornis, Li pair us introductus n. sp. 

 and Menopon monostcechum n. sp. The short feathers 

 of the neck, especially of the throat, were literally cov- 

 ered with the eggs of some one of these species. This 

 Goniocotes resembles in general characters Giebel's 

 species chrysocephalus (Insecta Epizoa, p. 189), a com- 

 mon Goniocotes of Pheasants, found so far on Phasianus 

 colchicus, nycthemerus, sornmeringii ', pic/ns, and Euplo- 

 camus ignitus, but is a markedly larger species. 



Description of the female. Body, length 1.6 mm., 

 width .87 mm. ; pale yellowish brown, with darker head 

 and with dark brown head markings, and lighter lateral 

 bands which are peculiarly curved so as to enclose a less 

 chitinized space. 



