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One liuile from a Least Saiulpiper, Trimja inlnutilla 

 (Palo Alto, California). Denny's specimens were taken 

 from the same host; Giebel's single specimen from the 

 same host, and Piaget's from Tringa Hubarqiiata. Osborn's 

 specimens are from the "black-billed sandjiiper" (Bur- 

 nett collection). Our specimen lias no emargination of 

 the clypeal front, a character especially noted by Denny 

 and Piaget. But Giebel's specimen is like ours: " der 

 Vorderrand ist nicht tief ausgeschnitten, sondern nur 

 sanft concav." The species can be recognized by the 

 large elongate head, the dark coloration, and narrow 

 genitalia. Our specimen, figured, measures: body, 

 length, 1.31 mm., width .5 mm.: head, length .5 mm., 

 width .44 mm. 



Docophorus fuliginosus Kellogg. 



New Mftllopbaga, I, 1S96, p. SO, pi. iii, tig. -J. 



Specimens from the Black-bellied Plover, Squatarola 

 sipiatarola, and from the Semipalmated Plover, .£gia- 

 liiis seviipalmata (Pacific Grove, California). Described 

 from Squatarola squatarola (Kansas and California). 



Docophorus pictus Giebel. (Plate V, lig. 4). 



Insecta Epizoa, 1S74, p. 74. 

 Docophorus pictus G., Piaget, Les Pediculines, ISSO. p. 2.3. 



Numerous specimens from a Golden Eagle, Aquila 

 chrysai'tos (Palo Alto, California). The specimens are 

 of the characteristic group infesting eagles, of which 

 plati/stomus N. (Giebel, Insecta Epizoa, p. 69, pi. ix, fig. 

 1; Piaget, Les Pediculines, p. 17, pi. i, lig. 1) may be 

 taken as type. So many species have been described in 

 this group, on what seems to us slight differences, that 

 one may well despair of making a satisfactory reference 

 of his specimens to any one of the forms to the exclusion 



