26 Journal New York. Ento.\iolo(jical Society'. [Voi x. 



From HalitPliis leuc(>Cf'phaliis and Ai/itila c/iryscetos ( Kadiak 

 Island, Alaska). 



Menopon infrequens Ke/Ioi^-g, New Mallophaga, I, 1896, p. 161, pi. 

 XV, fig. 5 ; [j'st of Mallophaga, 1899, p. 75. 

 From Lanis i^laiicesccns (California and Kadiak Island, Alaska). 



Menopon funereum Kellogg d-' Cliapman, Mallophaga from P>irds 

 of California, in New Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 124, pi. VIII, 

 fig. 6 ; Kellogg, List of Mallophaga, 1899, p. 77. 

 From Aphclocoina californica (California). 



Menopon kuwani, sp. nov. (Plate III, Fig. 4.) 



Description of female. Body, length 2.22 mm., width i mm.; a very broadly 

 oval body ; color pale, translucent golden brown, without distinct markings, save 

 almost circular ocular blotches of clear chestnut brown and dark tips of mandibles. 



Head, length, .35 mm., width .65 mm.; broad through the temples, and sides 

 curving evenly but rapidly to the slightly angulated front of the clypeus ; one very 

 short hair and one rather long and one shorter hair on the margin of each side of the 

 angular point of the clypeus, a tiny prickle near the suture ; two long and several 

 shorter hairs on the swelling just in front of the very shallow ocular emargination ; 

 temples swelling but little below the ocular emargination, p>osteriorly forming a blunt 

 angle with the occipital border which is concave ; three long and two shorter hairs in 

 the temporal angle and four long pustulated hairs on the occipital margin ; color of 

 head light-chestnut brown, with dark brown ocular blotches and black ocular fleck, 

 dark chestnut markings where the tips of the mandibles show through the head ; oc- 

 cipital margin with a narrow chestnut band, darkening into broad occipital blotches. 



Prothorax bread, sides converging but slightly, anterior angles but little produced 

 each with two short spines and a long hair ; two long hairs and a siiort spine in 

 the posterior angle and four long hairs on the sHghtly convex posterior margin ; 

 color pale even chestnut. Mesothorax short, sides rapidly diverging, metathorax 

 distinctly separated from mesothorax by marginal constriction, but little wider than 

 the prothorax ; posterior angles with several short spines and the last of a series of 

 long hairs on the posterior margin ; color slightly paler than the prothorax. Legs 

 of the palest color of the prothorax, and with several short stiff hairs on the femora 

 and tibia. 



Abdomen broadly elliptical, posterior angles projecting but little after the third 

 segment, a few short spines and from one to two long hairs in the posterior angles ; a 

 series of long hairs on the posterior margin of each segment ; last segment rounding 

 with long hairs on the outer margin and a series of short stiff hairs along the rounding 

 posterior margin ; color paler than head and thorax but without darkei markings. 



From Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Calif.). 



Menopon persignatum Kellogg e^ Chapman, Mallophaga from Birds 

 of California, in New Mallophaga, III, 1899, p. 128, pi. IX, fig. i ; 



