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MALLOPHAGA FROM BIRDS OF THE HAWAIIAN 



ISLANDS. 



By V. L. Kellogg and B. L. Chapman, 

 Stanford University, California. 



The Mallophaga (biting lice) identified and described in this paper 

 were collected by Mr. Richard C. MacGregor from birds shot and 

 identified by himself in the Hawaiian Islands, and constitute the first 

 collection of insects of this order made in the islands. The collec- 

 tion includes twenty species of jjarasites taken from twelve species of 

 birds. Of these twenty species fourteen are here named and described 

 as new, four are named and described as varieties of previously known 

 species, while but two can be considered typical representatives of al- 

 ready known species. Of the twelve bird species composing the list of 

 hosts, four are species peculiar to the Hawaiian Islands and the para- 

 sites of these hosts are all new species except the two taken from the 

 Hawaiian coot, Fulica alai. 



The collection is too small and the new species in it altogether too 

 strongly in the majority, to make profitable any attempt to compare 

 the Mallophaga of Hawaii with those of other regions. 



The occurrence of Lipeunis docophoroides, the typical parasite of the 

 California partridges, on the introduced Indian "minha" is interest- 

 ing, but is probably explained by the ground feeding habits of the 

 ■' minha " and the introduction into Hawaii of the partridges. Inter- 

 esting also and not so readily explicable is the occurrence of Oncoph- 

 orus adena a characteristic parasite of coots and found in the Hawaiian 

 coot, on the forest inhabiting honey-sucker, Vestiaria coccinea. 



The following is a list of the papers by Kellogg (as sole or joint 

 author) constantly referred to in the following pages by abbreviated 

 titles. 



New Mallophaga, I ; Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins .Seaside Laboratory 

 of the Leland Stanford Junior University, No. IV, 1896. 



New Mallophaga, II ; Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Labora- 

 tory of the Leland Stanford Junior University, No. VII, 1896. 



New Mallophaga, III ; Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Labora- 

 tory of the Leland Stanford Junior University, No. XIX, 1899. 



A List of the Biting Lice (Mallophaga) taken from Birds and Mammals of North 

 America, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., Vol. XXII, pp. 39-100, 1899. 



