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I\I I S C E Iv L A N E A INSECTS. Additional Mallophaga from the Indian Museum (Calcutta). In addition to a large collection of Mallophaga from birds of India and S. Asia generally, received from the Indian Museum, and recently reported on by Kellogg and Paine {Rec. Ind. Mus. Vol. X, pp. 217-243, 1914), we have received a small sending com-posed of the species noted in this paper. Although no new species are included in this collection, the new host and locality records are worth recording. Docophorus rostratus, Nitzsch. Juvenile specimens from Scops sp. (taken at sea, off Aden). Docophorus gonorhynchns, Nitzsch. Specimens taken from Milvus melanotis (Kurseong, E. Himalayas). Nirmus rufus, Nitzsch. Specimens from the Brahmini Kite Haliaster indicus (Calcutta). Lipeurus longus, Piaget. Specimens from the pheasant Tra-gopan satyr a (Zool. Gardens, Calcutta). Lipeurus antilogus, Nitzsch. Males and females of this well-marked and interesting parasite of the bustards from Houbara {Otis) macqueeni (in captivity, Lahore, Punjab, and also wild, Bhawalnagar, Punjab). Goniodes bicuspidatiis , Piaget. Males and females from the pheasant Tragopaii satyra (Zool. Gardens, Calcutta). Colpocephalum flavescens, Nitzsch. Specimens from the Brah-mini Kite Haliaster indicus (Calcutta). Colpocephalum subpachygaster, Piaget. Specimens from Scops sp. (at sea, off Aden). Colpocephalum miandrium, Kellogg. Specimens from the African Brown Crane Balearica pavonica (in captivity, Calcutta). This species was originally described from specimens taken from a crane of the same genus collected by Sjostedt's Kilimanjaro Meru Expedition in E. Africa in 1907. Menopon gonophaeum, Nitzsch. Specimens from the Raven Corvus corax (Zool. Gardens, Calcutta, recently received from Nepal). Menopon nigrum, Kellogg and Paine. Specimens from Corvus spiendens (Calcutta). This species was described in 1911 from specimens taken from the White-Necked Raven CorvuUur albicollis, shot at Oshogbo, Southern Nigeria, by J. J. Simpson. The species,

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Additional Mallophaga from Indian Museum (Calcutta)

Vernon Lyman Kellogg and Shonosuke Nakayama
Records of The Indian Museum 11: 139-140 (1915)

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