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Menopon titan var. linearis Kellogg. 



New Mallophaga, I, 1896, p. 163, pi. xv, fig. 2. 



Many specimens from the Californian Brown Pelican, 

 Pelecanus calif ornicus (Bay of Monterey, California). 

 Described from the same host species, same locality. 



Menopon funereum n. sp. (Plate A^III, fig. 6). 



A single male from a Gairdner's Woodpecker, Dryo- 

 bates jnibescens gairdnerii (Sunol, California), and a pale 

 male frojn a Western Evening Grosbeak, Coccothraustes 

 vespertinus onontanus (California). This second speci- 

 men determined with doubt. Not like M. jjici Denny 

 (Monograph. Anoplur. Brit., p. 219, pi. xx, fig. 5; Pia- 

 get, Supplement, p. 93, pi. x, fig. 3) from Picus viridis; 

 also differing distinctly from M. prceciirsor Kellogg (Mal- 

 lophaga from Birds of Panama, Baja California, and 

 Alaska, in New Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 46, pi. iv, 

 fig. 8) from Melanerpes urojjygialis (Baja California). 



Description of the male. Body, length 1.5 mm., 

 width .59 mm.; mostly dark colored because of the 

 strong, continuous, brown, transverse, abdominal bands 

 and the blackish marking of the head, thorax and legs; 

 thorax long, with mesothoracic sutural line distinct 

 under magnification. 



Head, length .4 mm., width .56 mm.; front convex, 

 with two marginal hairs near the median line of the 

 front, a short prickle midway between this hair and a 

 long hair and short spine which are on the angle in 

 front of a slight lateral concavity, in which are a long 

 hair and short prickle; a long hair and shorter hair 

 near the posterior angle of the concavity and in front 

 of the angle before the ocular eraargination on which 

 are two long hairs; eye large, filling the inner angle 

 of the ocular emargination, distinctly emarginate and 



