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iimi. wide, (Osboni's typo .94 mm. ); liead, lengtli .7 luin., 

 (Osborii, .()<> 111111.), width .8') mm., (Osborn, .T.'J mm.) 

 Osboni's figure, after a photograph, shows the cliarac- 

 teristic outline, but we tliink there is also needed 

 a figure .showing the markings which are also very 

 characteristic. The broad rounding anterior einargi- 

 nations of first two transverse abdominal bands differ 

 notably from the not uncommon narrow angular emarg- 

 inations of these bands. 



Nirmus inccenis n. sp. (Plate \'l, fig. 5). 



A single female from a Black-bellied Plover, Srjiud- 

 arola nquatarola (Pacific Grove, California). Distinctly 

 different from Kellogg's orariiis (New Mallophaga I, 

 1890, p. 1U4, i>l. V, fig. 5) from Chdradriuf^ duininicus 

 (Lawrence, Kansas) or ba'ph'diis (ibid, p. 107, pi. v, 

 fig. 7) from ^Egicditix rocifera (Lawrence, Kansas). 



Description of the female. Body, length 1.05 mm., 

 width .31 mm.; strikingly elongate, narrow; head long, 

 with subparallel sides; pale golden brown with very 

 narrow blackish lateral borders on the head, thorax, and 

 abdomen; an ill-defined brownish band across the 

 head in fnuil of the antennal bands. 



Head, length ..17 mm., width .'Ji mm.; clypeal front 

 broadly rounding, with three marginal hairs about 

 equally distant a[iart, the third just before the suture, 

 one hair arising from the dorsal surface, extending be- 

 yond the lateral margin of the head, a short fine hair 

 in front of the small acuminate trabecuhe, antennie 

 short, segment 2 longer than segment 1, and segment 

 5 longer than segments 3 or 4; eye flat, with a 

 prickle near its posterior angle; temples with sides 

 [Kirallel, with one long hair, one short fine hair, and 

 one short prickle on the margin; occipital margin 

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