MALLOPHAGA FROM BIRDS OF THE PONAPÉ I. ETC. 



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15. Colpocep>halum unicolor Rudow. 



Rudow, Zeitsch. f. d. ges. Nat. XXXIV, p. 392 , Piaget, Les Pediculines, p. 535, pi. 

 xliv, fig. 7. 



A male, two female and seven young specimens were collected 

 from Globicera oceanica obtained in the Palau Ids. (April 2). 



16. Colpocephalum pediculoicles Mjöberg. 



Mjöberg, Arkiv. för Zoologi, Bd. VI, p. 44, Taf. 2, fig. 6. 



One male from Strep silas inter près shot on the Ponape Id. (April 



17. Colpocephalum epiphanes Kellogg and Chapman. 



This species was first described in 1904 by Kellogg and Chapman, 1 ' 

 from three female specimens obtained from Anous stolidus collected at 

 Kahului, Maui Island. The present specimens were found on Phcethon 

 Candidus shot in the Palau Ids. (April 2) and consist of three 

 females and three males. 



The male is paler in colour than the female and much smaller in 

 size of body but especially in that of abdomen. Head comparatively 

 larger, with a constriction on the lateral margin in front of ocular 

 emargination ; front more rounded, expanded, with two strong spines 

 near each lateral margin. Genitalia indistinctly distinguishable through 

 the body-wall, extending forward into segment 6. 



14). 



Measurements : 



Width of body, .48 .47 .4S 



Length of head, .33 .31 .34 



Width of head, .52 .51 .52 



Length of thorax, .40 .40 .41 



Width of thorax, .42 .42 .42 



Length of body, 1.58 1.50 1/ 



35 



34 



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54 



43 



43 



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I) Fauna Flavvaiensis III, p. 313, pi. x, fig. 7; Journ. N. Y. Entm. Soc, X, p. 160, pi. 

 xiv, fig. 2. 



