MALLOPIIAGA FROM BIRDS OF THE PONAPÉ I. ETC. 483 



Parasite. 



Host previously 

 reported. 



Host in the present 

 collection. 



D. albcmarlensis. 



N. orarius. 

 L. baculus. 



C. importunimi. 



Camarhynchus ajfinis. 



Charadrius dominicus. 



Several species of 



the Columbidœ. 



Several species of 



Ardea. 



[Sterna ber gii. 

 \ St. melanauchen. 



Demiegretta jugularis 

 grayi. 



Nycticorax caledonicus. 



[Sterna ber gii. 

 \ St. melanauchen. 



It may be remarked that, in the cases of one and the same species 

 of the parasite having been taken from more than one host species, 

 these are birds which often occur together in company on rocks of the 

 islands. 



Gen. DoCOphoniS Nitzsch. 

 1. Docophorus alqtoclypeatus Piaget. 



Piaget, Les Pediculines, Supplement, p. 10, pi. i, fig. 11. 



Four females of the species were collected from Halcyon pelewensis 

 shot in the Palau Ids. (May 25), and two females and twenty one 

 males from Halcyon chlor is teraokai shot in the same islands (May 

 23). Further a male and a young specimen were obtained from 

 Halcyon sordidus collected in the Palau Ids. (March). 



2. DocopJiOi'iis albemarlensis Kellogg and Kuwana. 



Kellogg and Kuwana, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., IV, p. 465, pi. xxviii, fig. 5. 



Three females were collected from Sterna melanauchen obtained in 

 the Ponapé Id. (April 29) ; and two males and three females were 

 obtained on Sterna bergii shot in the same island (April 26). 



