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from one to three long hairs; segment 1 wholly 

 golden brown, the transverse blotches meeting near the 

 posterior margin in an acute point; the transverse lat- 

 eral blotches of segments 2 to 7 are separated by 

 a transparent whitish median space; the lateral mar- 

 gins of the segments are dark brown to black; along 

 the posterior margins of the transverse lateral bands 

 are partially uncolored spots bearing long hairs; stig- 

 matal spots distinct; segment 8 wholly pale brown, 

 darker in the middle, owing to the dark genitalia show- 

 ing through; segment 9 very small and uncolored; 

 genitalia distinct, dark brown reaching as far forward 

 as segment 6. 



Female. Body, length 1.62 mm., \Yidth .78 mm.; 

 head, length .56 mm., width .53 mm.; abdomen not so 

 broad in comparison with the length as in the male, 

 not turbinated, and the median whitish space larger. 



Docophorus lari Denny. (See Kellogg, New Mallophaga, 



1, 1896, p. 98, pi. iv, fig. 4). 



Specimens from Larus delevjarensis , L. occidentalis 

 (three birds), and L. heervianni (two birds) (Bay of 

 Monterey, California). Previously taken by Kellogg 

 from these and other species of Larus. 



Docophorus melanocephalus Burmeister. (See Kellogg, 

 New Mallophaga, I, 1896, p. 99, pi. iv, fig. 6). 

 Two specimens from the Royal Tern, Sierna maxima 

 (Bay of Monterey, California), and two specimens from 

 the Pomarine Jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus (Bay of 

 Monterey, California). Previously taken by Kellogg 

 from Sterna maxima (same locality). 



Docophorus validus n. sp. (Plate V, fig. 2). 



A single female specimen of this striking Docophorus 

 from a Black-vented Shearwater, Puffinus opisthomelas 



