NEW MALLOPIIAUA. <0 



blotches (see figure). My spefimeiir« measured: Male, 

 body, leiiL^th l.S niin., width .02 mm.: head, length 

 .53 mm., width .'):') mm. Female, body, length -2.1 

 mm., width .Oo mm.; head, length .0 mm., width 

 .G mm. 



Nirmus lineolatus var. atri-marginatus. Kellogg and 



Chapman (For Uneolatiis see Kellogg, New Mallo- 



phaga, 1, 1896, p. 113, pi. vi, ligs. 7^ 8 and 9). 



Many specimens from Lams caniis, vega-, brachyrhyn- 



chus and Rism tridadyla jMllkaris (Bay of Monterey, 



California). A readily recognized variety of lineolatus, 



characterized by the presence of black temporal borders, 



usually strongly marked, sometimes weakly so. Other 



characters those of lineolatus. 



Nirmus punctatus Xitzsch. (See Kellogg, New Mallo- 

 phaga, 1, 1896, p. 109, pi. vi, figs. 1 and 2). 

 Specimens from Lariis deleirarensis (Bay of Monterey, 



California). Taken previously by Kellogg from Lams 



occidentalis (same locality). 



Nirmus giganticola Kellogg. 



Niw Maliopbaga, I, 1S!)6, p. lUo, pi. v, fig. (i. 



Many specimens from a Short-tailed Albatross, Dio- 

 medea albatrus, and a single specimen from a Dark- 

 bodied Shearwater, PiifniH!^ gviseiis (Bay of Monterey, 

 California). Described from Diomedca albatrus (same 

 locality). 



Nirmus complexivus n. ^p. (Plate VI, fig. 3). 



Many taken from the Sanderling, Calidris arenaria 

 (Pacific Grove, California); found on every one of fif- 

 teen birds shot, and two specimens from a Least Sand- 

 piper, Tringa minvtilla (Palo Alto, California). This 



