Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 19 



Mallophaga from Bolivian Birds. 



By Y. L. Kellogg and J. H. Paine, Stanford University. 



California. 

 The following determinations and descriptions of new spe- 

 cies of Mallophaga refer to a small collection of specimens 

 from Bolivian birds in iqor by the late Perry O. Simons. 

 (This unfortunate collector of birds for the British Museum 

 was murdered bv Indians in the Bolivian mountains in 1902 



(?) 



In Simons' notes the birds are listed only under Bolivian 

 vernacular or descriptive English names, and we are unable 

 to ascribe them with certainty to their proper species. The 

 English names reveal at least their general sort, as duck, hum- 

 ming bird, eagle, etc. 



Docophorus laticeps Giebel. 

 Several specimens from the "white-headed oriole" (Choro, 

 Bolivia, 3500 metres, dry season). 



Docophorus communis Xitzsch. 

 Specimens from "bird" (Choro. Bolivia). 



Docophorus fissi-signatus n. sp. (Fig. 1.) 

 Two females from "desert curlew" (Lagonillas. Bolivia"). 

 This species belongs to Piaget's type fisignati from the Spoon 

 bills and Ibises and is the second of this type that we have 

 found on curlews in this country. 



Description of female. — Body length, 2.4 mm. ; width, 1.06 mm. 

 Signature double. Head : Length, .66 mm. ; width, .68 mm. ; quite dark 

 in color except for the clypeus ; signature double, somewhat lighter 

 in color than the rest of the head except for its two posterior pro- 

 longations ; margin and space between the portions of the signature 

 transparent. Clypeus truncate; rounded on the angles, sides slightly 

 diverging, suture distinct. The antennal bands extend over half the 

 length of the clypeus. A prominent hair arises just forward of the 

 termination of the antennal band and another shorter one on the 

 margin at the termination of this band : also a short hair near the 

 suture with another long one arising on the dorsal surface further 

 forward ; a hair arising from the ventral surface extending beyond 



