BITING-LICE OF GOAT. 



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thorax and legs are reddish-brown, the abdomen yellowish 

 with a transverse dusky band in the middle of the anterior 

 portion of the last eight segments. (Fig. 87). 



THE BITING-LICE OF THE GOAT. 



( Trichodectes liinhatus and climax) . 



Dr. Cooper Curtice, in his excellent work on "The Ani- 

 mal Parasites of Sheep," describes and illustrates two spe- 



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Fig. 88. — Biting-lmisp of the goat, fe- 

 -male. Greatly enlarged. After Curtice. 



Fig. 89. — Biting-louse of the 

 goat, male. Greatly enlarged. 

 After Curtice 



cies of Trichodectes as infesting the goat. These two species 

 are very similiar to each other, and are, perhaps, only varie- 

 ties. His illustrations are very fine, and his figures of the 

 female of linibatus (fig, 88)and of the male of climax {^g. 89) 

 are reproduced. 



The former species, limhatm, is fairly common in some 

 localities, but not here in Minnesota. It usually occurs 

 among the coarse hair along the back and sides of the in- 

 fested animals and causes much discomfort, and in extreme 

 cases even a form of scab. 



A number of other hair-lice are found upon mammals. 



