Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



2 9, Icf Domestic Pigeon Portland, Me. 11-10-1958 R.L.Blickle 



Measurements : <^ 2 9 



Head Length .36 



Head Width .60 



Prothorax Width .40 



Pterothorax Width .60 



Abdomen Length .76 



Abdomen Width .84 



Total Length 1.63 



HOLOMENOPON 



Holomenopon Eichler, 1941a. Stettin. Ent . Ztg., 102: 125. 

 Type species: Menopon alhofasciatum Piaget, 1880. 



Laterodorsal margin of head with preocular notch or slit. Pouch- 

 like cavity, usually deep, between laterodorsal and lateroventral mar- 

 gins of head. Occiput with basal thickening passing forward to latero- 

 dorsal margins of head. Prosternum with 2 median setae; prosternal 

 plate with deeply serrated posterior margin. Posterior femur and 

 abdominal sternites IV-V with scattered to moderately thick brushes 

 of normal setae; sternites III and V may also possess brushes of scat- 

 tered setae. 



Holomenopon olypeilargvim Eichler, 1943 ^^ 



Holomenopon clypeilargum Eichler, 1943a. Mitt. Munch. Ent. Ges., 



33: 236, figs. 3-4. 

 Type host: Anas acuta Linnaeus — Pintail. 



1 have no information concerning this species of Mallophaga and no 

 records of its being collected in New England. It is included since it 

 should be found if enough collections are made. 



Holomenopon leucoxanthim (Burmeister, 1838) 



Menopon leucoxanthim Burmeister, 1838. Handb. Ent., 2: 440. 

 Type host: Anas cveoa Linnaeus — Common Teal. 



The Common Teal is a casual visitor to New England. I have no 

 records of Holomenopon leucoxanthum having been recovered from it in 

 this area. 



Holomenopon loomisii (Kellogg, 1896) 



Menopon loomisii Kellogg, 1896. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 6: 162, 



pi. 15, fig. 6. 

 Type host: Melanitta deglandi (Bonaparte) — White-winged Scoter. 



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