NEW mai.i.oi'11A(;a. 11 



scribed from a Purple Martin, Progne subis {LsLwrcnce, 

 Kansas). 



Docophorus laticeps Giebel. (Plate I, figs. 4 and 7). 



Insecta Epizon, 1874, p. 88. 

 PhHo))terus cincli Gervais, Hist. nat. d. Insectes apt^res, 1847, p. 



33G. 

 Docophorus cincli Denuy, Monograph. Anoplur. Brit., 1S42, p. S5, 



pi. V, fig. 8. 



Docophorus laticeps Giebel, Pinget, Les Pediculiues, 18S0, p. C"); 

 Ku'nig; Eiu Beitrag zur Mallophageu-fauua, 1SS4, p. 3, pi. i. 

 figs. 1-5; pi. ii, figs. 6, 7. 



One adult female and two immature specimens from 

 the iVmerican Dipper, Cinclus mexicanus (Kodiak Island. 

 Alaska), which may be referred to this species, but 

 which constitute a distinct variety characterized by tlie 

 elongate, slender forehead with emarginated front. The 

 species was found on Cinclus aquuticus, the European 

 Dipper. 



Var. (imericanu.s Kellogg. Female, boily, length 2.06 

 mm., widtli .75 mm.; head, length .6 mm., width .5 

 mm.; thus being one-third longer than the species 

 dimensions as given by KaMiig; head elongate, with 

 narrow tapering forehead; front uncolored, with slight, 

 narrowly rounded cmargination; signature long, nar- 

 row, with posterior point reaching the mandibles; anten- 

 nal bands distinct; trabecuho long, slender; abdomen 

 elongate-elliptical, with lateral triangular blotches with 

 stigmatal spots and pustulations as in the species types; 

 also, narrow blackish lateral bands; segment 8 whollv 

 colored; ventral surface of abdomen with transverse 

 median blotches; segment 7 with a narrower median 

 blotch (touching blotch of segment 6) and two small 

 lateral reniform blotches; segment 8 whollv colored or 

 nearly so. 



