This is the only species of the genus found thus far on members 

 of the family Cuculidae in New England. The Yellow-billed Cuckoo is a 

 host for a species of this genus also. I have collected 1 male and 3 

 female Cuculicola sp. from the Yellow-billed Cuckoo but have been un- 

 able to recover Cuculicola erythropthalmus Emerson, 1964a, from the 

 Black-billed Cuckoo. The genus description is sufficient to determine 

 this species. 



CUCULOECUS 



Cuculoecus Ewing, 1926. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 28: 148. 

 Type species: Philopterus coccygi (Osborn, 1896). 



Clypeal region with a hyaline margin throughout, which in front is 

 incurved or concave; dorsal anterior plate entire; clypeal bands not 

 reaching the lateral margins of the head and each bearing dorsally, at 

 its anterior end, a tuft of 3 or more long setae. Clavi large. Anten- 

 nae similar in the 2 sexes. Eyes normal with evenly rounded corneas. 

 Abdomen broad and stout; tergites of female interrupted in the middle. 

 Genitalia of male with stout parameres and slender basal plate; endomeres 

 fused into an endomeral plate which usually protrudes beyond the para- 

 meres; penis present, but small and not well developed. Members of 

 this genus are parasitic on the order Cuculiformes. 



Cuculoecus coccygi (Osborn, 1896) 



Docophovus coccygi Osborn, 1896. Bull. U. S. Bur. Ent. (n. s.), 



5: 222, fig. 143. 

 Docophovus latifrons occidentalis Kellogg, 1899 {nee 1896). 



Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. , 6: 6, pi. 1, figs. 5 and 8. 

 Type host: Coccyzus covericanus (Linnaeus) — Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



At the present time, this is the only known species of the genus 

 described from North America. With sufficient collecting a species of 

 this genus should also be recovered from Coccyzus erythropthalmus 

 (Wilson), the Black-billed Cuckoo. 



Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



1 slide Coccyzus americanus Winchester, NH VI-26-1935 L.R.Nelson 



(USNM) 

 1 imm. " " ~ ~ UNH 



CUMMINGSIELLA 



Dollabella Cummings, 1916 (nee Gistel, 1848). Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1916: 675. 



Type species: Dollabella testudinarius (Denny, 1842) (A synonym 

 of Pediculus ovalis Scopoli, 1763). 

 Cummingsiella Ewing, 1930b. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 43: 125 (nn for 



Dollabella Cummings, 1916). 



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