Sept., I902.] Kellogg & Chapman : Mallophaga of Hawah. 157 



Male : Body, length 1. 33 mm.; width .5 mm.; head, length .5 mm.; width .48 mm.; 

 abdomen broadly ovate, last segment flatly rounding, with very long hair in the lat- 

 eral angles ; segments 6-9 entirely chestnut-brown. 



Specimens from Chloi-odrepanis virens (Kahului, Maui Island, and 

 las Valley, Maui Island. ) 



Docophorus fuliginosus hawaiiensis, var. nov. 



Kellogg, New Mallophaga, T, 1896, p. So, pi. Ill, fig. 2; List of Mallo- 

 phaga, 1899, p. 47. 



Measurements of male, body length 1.6 mm., wddth .75 mm., head length. 6 mm., 

 width .6 mm., abdomen broadly ovate to subcircular, distinctly turbinate, strongly 

 colored, showing but little light uncolored median region, segments 1-6 with series of 

 strong pustulations. 



Many specimens from Charadrius dominiais fiihnis (Kahului, Maui 

 Island) and from Heteractitis iticamis (Hito, Hawaii Island) may be 

 referred to the SY>^c\e?, fultginosjis but they show well-marked varietal 

 differences 



Nirmus minhaensis, sp. nov. (Plate XIII, Fig. 2.) 



Female : Body length 1. 83 mm., width .46 mm., pale golden brown. 



Head, length .65 mm.; width .38 mm.; narrowly elongate, conical, with the cly- 

 peal margin broadly rounding ; its uncolored clypeal region expanding'in front of the 

 suture ; seven hairs on the margin of forehead, two of which are longer than others 

 and arise dorsally ; antennae with second segment longest, and segment 5 longer than 

 segments 3 or 4 ; eye not prominent with one hair, temples with sides nearly parallel, 

 one long pustulated hair in the broadly rounded temporal angle and three short 

 prickles on the margin ; occipital margin slightly concave, without hairs or prickles ; 

 general color of the head pale golden brown , clypeal signature pale brown but dis- 

 tinct, narrowing slightly posteriorly ; anterior and posterior margins slightly convex ; 

 antennal bands broad anteriorly but little darker than general color of the head deep- 

 ening to black-brown at the antennal fossse ; ocular blotch distinct, black-brown ; tem- 

 poral borders narrow but well marked until interrupted by the pustulation, broader 

 just below the eye ; occipital blotches distinct. 



Prothorax short, sides parallel ; posterior angle with one long pustulated hair ; 

 general color pale brown with whitish median line and narrow dark lateral bands. 

 Metathorax with broad rounding sides, diverging posteriorly ; one long hair in the 

 posterior angle ; posterior margin with a long, acute, median angle ; lateral sub- 

 marginal band, widening near the anterior angle and again in front of the posterior 

 angle. Legs pale golden brown without dark markings. 



Abdomen narrow, elliptical ; broadening 'rapidly to segment 4 ; posterior angle 

 distinct with 1-2 long hairs ; broad transverse band of pale brown separated by a dis- 

 tinct uncolored median line extending to segment 6, bands shining in segments 6 and 

 7 ; lateral bands dark golden brown, broader anteriorly ; posterior margins of seg- 

 ments uncolored ; last segment broadly rounding with a slight emargination. 



One specimen from Acridotheres tristis (Hahaina, Maui Island). 



