Sept.,i902.] Kellogg & Chapman ; Mallophaoa of Hawaii. 163 



Prothorax broad anteriorly, angles with one long hair and a short spine ; a short 

 spine and one long hair on the broadly rounding lateral margin ; color yellow brown 

 with no distinct markings. Metathorax narrow with abruptly diverging sides ; a 

 series of short stiff spines along the lateral margin. A number of long hairs in the 

 rounding posterior angles ; posterior margin straight with a series of long hairs ; pale 

 brown with darker brown angular lateral blotches. Legs robust, pale brown with 

 darker marginal bands ; a number of short stiff hairs on the outer margin of the tibia. 



Abdomen broadly elliptical, the lateral margins broken by slightly projecting 

 posterior angles of the segments ; many long and short stiff hairs along the lateral 

 margins and a series of stiff hairs along the posterior margins of each segment, the 

 hairs longer on the posterior segments ; ground color pale yellow brown, growing 

 paler posteriorly ; darker brown lateral bands on all segments save the last, these 

 lateral bands interrupted interiorly by a pale line parallel with the lateral margins, 

 last segment broadly rounded, pale yellow to uncolored posterior margin ; a few long 

 weak hairs on the margin and a series of short weak submarginal hairs. 



Specimens from Asio accipitirinus (lao Valley, Maui Island), and 

 from Caradriiis dominicus fulvus (Kahului, Maui Island). 

 Colpocephalum conspicuum, sp. nov. (Plate XIV, Fig. 4). 



Female : Body, length 1. 28 mm.; width .55 mm. ; weakly colored, pale fuscous 

 with conspicuous dark golden brown markings on the head, thorax and abdomen. 



Head, length .25 mm.; width .4 mm. ; front with slight median angle, one short 

 weak hair each side of the front ; a slight angle in front of the palpi ; two long stiff 

 hairs on the slight elevation in front of the ocular emargination, three stiff hairs from 

 the ventral surface extending beyond the margin ; eye large, slightly flattened with a 

 black ocular blotch ; ocular fringe distinct with few stiff hairs ; temples broad with 

 flatly convex lateral margins bearing several hairs of various lengths, two being pus- 

 tulated ; occipital margins broadly concave with one long hair, one short hair and one 

 prickle each side of the median line, ground color pale fuscous with narrow dark brown 

 ocular border, meeting the paler clypeal blotches ; mandibles dark brown ; a pale 

 brown rectangular signature showing through the head. 



Prothorax ; anterior margin broadly convex ; antero-lateral angles obtuse, a 

 strong angle on the lateral margin with one strong hair ; three long hairs on each 

 lateral half of the rounded posterior margin ; ground color darker fuscous than head, 

 dark brown sternal markings showing through. Metathorax pentagonal, the meso- 

 thorax and metathorax distinctly separated ; sides of the metathorax diverging, one 

 long hair and three spines in the posterior angle, posterior margin with a series of 

 long hairs ; color dark fuscous on the prothorax, darker on the mesothorax dark 

 chitinous band of coxre showing through as a marginal border of the anterior angles ; 

 sternal markings dark intercoxal, lines consisting of a distinct wedge-shaped marking 

 on the presternum pale fuscous bordered posteriorly with a narrow dark band, and an 

 indefinite blotch on the metasternum tapering to a dark acute posterior angle. Legs 

 concolorous with the body with small brown markings. 



Abdomen elongate, elliptical, broadest on segment 5 ; posterior angles of seg- 

 ments slightly extending each with one long hair and a spine in the angle ; a series 

 of irregular hairs on the posterior margin of segments, growing thinner medially ; last 

 segment abruptly narrower than segment 8, posterior margin rounding with a fringe 



