Sept.,i902.] Kellogg & Chapman: Mallophaga of Hawaii. 159 



Prothorax quadrangular, with flatly rounding sides, posterior angles rounded 

 with one hair ; dark brown marginal border ; intercoxal lines of sternum showing 

 through. Metathorax with widely diverging sides ; posterior angles extending be- 

 yond the first segments of the abdomen ; a series of long pustulated hairs along the 

 broadly acute posterior margin ; dark brown blotch in the anterior angles ; black 

 brown blotches in posterior angles, fading inwardly to a narrow brown band remote 

 from the posterior margin which is pale golden brown. Legs palest golden brown, 

 femora and tibire with dorsal marginal black markings with a blackish-brown annula- 

 tion near the distal extremity, a few short stiff hairs. 



Abdomen elongate ovate, sides subparallel ; segments I to 4 rapidly widening ; 

 lateral angle acute with from one to three long weak hairs ; narrow black brown 

 marginal markings on segments I to 8 ; segment 8 with pale brown submarginal band 

 passing in an elongate curve across the segment broadening on the median line ; seg- 

 ment 9 uncolored, deeply emarginate, with one short prickle and one long hair each 

 side of the emargination ; segments 2-8 with a broad median blotch separated from 

 the lateral border by a broad uncolored band. 



Male: Body, length 1.25 mm. ; width .46 mm. ; head, length .38 mm. ; width 

 .38 mm. ; last abdominal segment protruding, narrowly rounded with several long 

 hairs each side of the middle of the posterior margin, segment 8 narrow, with small 

 pale blotch near lateral margins, segments 8-9 with broad continuous median blot- 

 ches ; genitalia composed of narrow bars, showing through segments 6-9. 



Male and female from Vestiaria coccinea (Hilo, Hawaii Islands). 



Nirmus orarius hawaiiensis, var. nov. 



Kellogg, New Mallophaga, I, 1896, p. 104, pi. V, fig. 5 ; List of Mallophaga, 



1899, p. 55- 



Female : Body, length 1.5 mm. ; width .38 mm. ; head, length .25 mm. ; width 

 .26 mm. Male : Body, length 1.3 mm. ; width .33 mm. ; head, length .4 mm. ; 

 width .26 mm. ; head not so elongate as in orarius, clypeus not extending so far 

 laterally, color of head translucent with distinct occipital signature, abdomen with 

 distinctly darker brown transverse bands. 



Several specimens from Charadriiis dominicus fulvus and Fulica 

 alai (Kahului, Maui Island) can be referred to this species but differ 

 in such degree as to make them entitled to varietal rank. 



Nirmus gloriosus emarginatus, var. nov. 



Kellogg and Kuw.\n.\, Mallophaga from Birds of the Galapagos Ids., Proc. 

 Wash. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1902, pp. 457-499, fig. i, pi. XXIX. 



Female, body length, 1.9 mm.; width, .38 mm. ; head, length, .43 mm.; width 

 .26 mm.; male, body length 1.6 mm.; width .33 mm. ; head, length .41 mm.; 

 width .25 mm. ; clypeus with distinct emargination, general color paler chestnut 

 brown. 



Several specimens from Anous stolidus (Kahului, Maui Island) can 

 be referred to this species but must have a varietal name. 



Lipeurus docophoroides minhaensJs, var. nov. 



PiAGET, Les Pediculines, 1895, p. 357, pi. XXVIII, fig. 9 ; Kellogg, List of 

 Mallophaga, 1899, p. 63. 



