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1 very long, wiili straight posterior margin; segment 2 

 a little shorter, with distinctly curving posterior mar- 

 gin; segment o still shorter, with curving margin; seg- 

 ments 4-7 very short; segment 8 longer; ventral bands 

 about as in lualc, with the last great band or blotch 

 reaching anteriorly, with convex anterior margin, into 

 segment 5. 



Menopon. 

 Menopon titan var. linearis Kellogg. 



New MallophasH, I, 1896, )). 16.'}, ])\. xv, H-;. '2. 



Many specimens from a Californian Brown Pelican, 

 Peiecanus calif amicus (Baja California). Described from 

 same host species from Bay of Monterey, California. 



Menopon auri-fasciatum n. ^p. (Plate 1\', fig. 5). 



From a Man o' W ar Bird, Fregata aquiia (Panama). 

 Not at all liki' .1/. intertnedimn Piaget (Les Pediculines, 

 p. 497, pi. xl, lig. 4) from Fregata minor. 



Description of female. Body, length 2.P.t mm., width 

 1.03 mm.: whitish with golden vellow transverse 

 abdominal bands; dorsal surface of abdomen with 

 manv strong hairs iu transverse series. 



Head, length .31 mm., width .7 mm.; half-moon 

 shaped, with smooth, even conve.x border; two short 

 hairs on the front on each side of the middle, and two 

 longish hairs and three shorter ones on each side in 

 front of the antcinial ravitv; foui* verv long hairs and 

 several short ones in each temple; occipital margin 

 concave, with six rather long hairs; pale yellowish white 

 with black ocular Hecks and small brown blotches just 

 inside of the antennary cavities. 



Prothorax rather large, with three short spines and a 



