NEW MALLOPHAGA. 9 



ventral abdomiiKil Motches smaller than those of male 

 and not reaching so far laterally, those of posterior 

 segments forming a genital blotch with broad, curving 

 anterior part, narrower median part, and separate 

 small lateral reniforni j>arts. 



Docophorus communis Nitzsch. (See Kellogg, New Mal- 

 lophaga, 11, IMtG, p. 4S6, pi. Ixvi, lig. 7). 



Several specimens from the Saint Lucas Cardinal, 

 Cardinalis cardinulis igneus (Baja California). Taken 

 previously by me from 16 species of passerine birds 

 (Kansas and California). 



Docophorus panamensis n. sp. (Plate I, fig. 1). 



From a tanagrine bird, Phienicothraujjis fiLscicauda 

 (Panama). A 3^/r/7iMs-like form but with distinctly 

 long trabeculie. By shape of head and thorax allied to 

 the ang list i front es group of the woodpeckers; resembling 

 my D. jungens (New Mallophaga, 11, 1806, p. 4S1, pi. 

 Ixvi, fig. 4) from Colaptea miratus (Kansas). 



Description of female. Body, length l.Tn mm., 

 width .61 mm.; narrow, Nirmoid, whitish with distinct 

 brown lateral bands on thorax and abdomen, and quad- 

 rangular lateral transverse blotches. 



Head, length .5 mm., width .5 mm.; triangular, with 

 narrow front, slightly cmarginated; three short hairs 

 on each side of the anterior half of the forehead, and 

 three longer hairs and a prickle in front of the trabec- 

 ulse; the trabecuhe prominent, extending beyond the 

 tip of first segment of the antennae; the antenna^ rather 

 thick, segment 2 longest, with a prominent short spiny 

 hair: eyes rather large, with a j)rickle; temporal margin 



