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S. UCIIIDA : 



Gen. Nirmus Nitzsch. 

 3. Hirmus orarius Kellogg. 



Kellogg, New Mallophaga I, p. 104, pl. v, fig. 5. 



A single female specimen was taken from Demiegretta jugularis 

 grayi obtained in the Ponapc Id. (April). 



The type specimen of this species was taken from the Golden 

 plover, Châradrius dominions (Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.). This is a 

 somewhat strange instance of distribution, but I entertain no doubt as 

 to the correct identification of the parasite before me, since it agrees 

 quite well with Kellogg's description of ovaritis. 



4. Nirmus separatus Kellogg and Kuwana. 



Kellogg and Kuwana, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. IV, p. 472. pi. xxix, fig. 6, 



A male and a female, both immature, were obtained from Anous 

 stolidns shot in the Palau Ids. (Feb. 22). 



:Gen. Psittaconirmus Harrison 



5. Psittaconirmus harrisoni n. sp. (fig. i). 



A single female specimen of this new species was obtained on Eos 

 rubigiiiosa shot in the Ponapé Id. (April 20). 



This second species of the Genus Psittaconirmus is closely allied 

 to Harrison's species 15 P. australis from the Purple-crowned lorikeet, 

 Glossopsittacns porphyroccphalus, but is distinguished by the following 

 points : 



1. Size larger. Length of body 2.02 mm., instead of 1.73 mm. 



2. Head much broader, especially behind antennae. Measurements 

 of head being .44 mm. by .39 mm., instead of .42 mm. by .32 mm. as 

 in P. australis. 



1) Parasitology Vol. VII, 1915, p. 403, pi. xxvi, fig. 7 and xxvii, figs. 12, 13. 



