STUDIES IN NEOTROPICAL MALLOPHAGA—CARRIKER 211 
MEASUREMENTS OF HEPTAGONIODES 
dimorphus 
agonus 
(male) 
Structure Male Female 
Length | Width | Length | Width | Length | Width 
TB YOO Rr ey Aa a IU ol CA A Ay Ay al PL BPA Mela is 2H Om | aon Re pea 2, 43 
[BROP asp A LR Ne NE UIE) LAL SN AL ER A BL Neca Sea 0:39) eee (ORCS Gln (sali SSS 0. 28 
Head EMAPEINALLO Tee ae eal eye a cen AMEN BWR Lae COs 53 i EG eB ORE 2 jt aaMe Nea Sns 
COT PISS Aye wey AE Wa a AA ANNES 0. 67 0. 69 0. 75 0. 80 0. 77 0. 74 
OCCI PUGH Mee) Lee bles Sa Thee ee Ox66%y || Bees CU CER Si | Wi eee 0. 64 
125 op 5) 005 2. Capes ae a NE A ro RG 0. 20 0. 48 0. 174 0. 50 0.195 0. 57 
INTESO ELLORA Kaeo ween lah AIAN DIORAMA UN Seely 0. 336 0. 63 0. 37 0. 70 0. 36 0. 69 
INIStAGNOTARS wen NE WAI Mie EAL SUR i ee 0. 30 0. 52 0. 35 0. 57 0. 347 0. 55 
EA) COMMON sy sleek SE 1.34 0. 89 1,39 0. 85 1. 45 0. 89 
WASTE OTULA AO eget NPT PALIN ARES Wr aL, 0.477 0.14 0. 50 0. 174 0. 25 0. 068 
IBAasaliplate sary See ue Ne Dea ie isn hae Tes 1.02 0.17 0. 86 OSL Zih i ee Nos alt 
FPBPATIOTS Sete eee aA ee UN Mae 0.12 0. 098 0. 20 (Tay i RL 
HE NAOMET AN Plate were ee ately iane ea 0. 087 0. 065 0.18 OS EY iyi es NL 
Genus ORNICHOLAX Carriker 
ORNICHOLAX ALIENUS (Giebel) 
Goniocotes alienus GIEBEL, Zeitschr. fiir ges. Naturw., vol. 28, p. 389, 1866. (Host: 
Crypturus macrourus.) 
Strongylocotes alienus (Giebel) TASCHENBERG, Die Mallophagen, p. 59, 1882.— 
CaARRBIKER, Lice of the tinamous, p. 98, 1936. 
An examination by Keler of the type of Goniocotes alienus Giebel 
shows it to be an Ornicholaw, not Strongylocotes, as I, having followed 
Taschenberg, had previously stated. 
Kéler has published a figure of the male genitalia of an Ornicholax 
taken on Zinamus solitarius, which he says is “exactly like the type” 
of aléenus. Then he goes on to say that figures published by Carriker 
(1986) of the genitalia of O. robustus and O. tao? are incorrect and that 
Ornicholaxw robustus Carriker is a synonym of O. alienus (Giebel). 
In the first place, having examined the genitalia of Ornicholaz from 
six different species of 7¢namus, I maintain that if Kéler’s figure, 
which he calls the genitalia of O. alienus (Giebel), was drawn from 
a specimen collected on 7¢anamus solitarius and not the actual type of 
alienus, it is impossible to accept his statement that they are the same. 
While admitting that there are some errors in my published figures 
of the genitalia of O. robustus and O. taoi, I further maintain that 
Kéler, not having seen my material, had no basis for saying that 
robustus was a synonym of alienus. Asa matter of fact, the genitalia 
of O. a taoi are much closer to those of solitarius Guimaraes and Lane 
than those of robustus. In further proof of the unreliability of 
Kéler’s statements we have his report to Miss Clay concerning speci- 
mens of Ornicholax from Tinamus major percautus of Mexico, of which 
I have an adequate series. 
