6 M. A. Carrikcr 



nished with two hairs in segments four to seven, four on each 

 side of the eighth ; one hair on posterior margin of segments 

 three to seven just within the lateral bands; a median row of 

 long slender hairs across the middle of segments two to six ; 

 narrow lateral bands of translucent brown, broken at the sutures 

 and projecting into adjacent anterior segments; clear pustules at 

 spiracles on segments two to seven ; transverse bands of golden 

 brown, separated by clear sutures and broken medially ; apical 

 segment clear, with brown tip ; genitalia deep brown, short, stout, 

 with inward curving points. 



Female. — Body, length 2.15 mm., width .83 mm.; head, length 

 .71 mm., width .66 mm. ; larger and lighter than male, with more 

 oval abdomen ; lateral bands narrower and transverse bands 

 shorter and more widely separated ; apical segment large, 

 rounded, clear, with a median, transverse blotch. 



Two males and one female collected on Micrastitr i^iicrilla, at 

 Pozo Azul, Costa Rica, Ji^uie, 1902. A rather unique form for a 

 Raptorial bird, but one readily recognized by the long, broad, 

 truncate clypeus. 



Oocophorus calif orniensis Kell. 



Kellogg, Nezv Mallophaga II, p. 483, pi. LXVI, fig. 6. 



Numerous males and females collected on Melanerpes formi- 

 civorus and Dryobates villosus jardinii, volcano Irazu, April, 

 1902, and on Chloronerpes yucatancims and Melanerpes aurifrons 

 hoffmani at Juan Vinas, Costa Rica, March, 1902. 



Docophorus bruneri sp. nov., pi. I., fig. f! 



Female. — Body, length 1.19 mm., width .42 mm.; clear umber 

 brown, with large head having clypeus pale golden and temples 

 deep brown ; abdomen elliptical, with narrow, pitchy, lateral 

 bands and median, transverse, brown bands. 



Head, length .42 mm., width .42 mm. ; very large in proportion 

 to the body, with broad, truncate-conical clypeus, slightly swob 

 len at clypeal angles ; one hair in clypeal angles, one marginal 

 and two submarginal ones on sides ; narrow golden brown an- 

 tenna! bands; clypeal signature large, pale, pointed posteriorly, 



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