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BURNETT’S GONIOCOTES. 
(Goniocotes burnettii Packard.) 
A species described by Dr. A. 8S. Packard (Am. Nat. vol. Iv, p. 94) 
is apparently much less common than some of the other species com- 
mon to the sadly infested barnyard fowl. According to Dr. Packard’s 
description it differs from the G. hologaster of Europe, 
which lives on the same bird, in the short second joint 
of the antenne, which are also stouter, and in the long 
* head, the clypeus being much longer and more acutely 
rounded, while the head is less hollowed out at the in- 
sertion of the antennz. The abdomen is oval and one- 
half as wide as long, with transverse, broad, irregular 
_ bands along the edges of the segments. The mandibles 
son ent are short and straight, two-toothed. The body is 
(After Packard.) slightly yellowish and variously streaked and banded 
with pitchy black. 
GONIOCOTES OF THE PHEASANT. 
(Goniocotes chrysocephalus Giebel.) 
This parasite of the pheasant was first described by Giebel in 1866 
under the name of Goniocotes colchict which he afterward changed to 
the above. It is said to resemble the hologaster which affects the do- 
mestic fowl. | 
THE CHICKEN GONIODES. 
(Goniodes dissimilis Nitzsch.) 
Although this species has been known for a considerable time,it seems 
not to have been abundant enough to receive frequent notice. 
Denny says: “I suspect this-species of being 
of rare occurrence, as the only specimen which 
I have examined was communicated by Mr. 
Thompson from Belfast, and that being a female, . 
I am precluded from describing the character- 
istics of the male.” 
It is a large species, 2 to 25 millimetres “{ 
in length, and Denny describes it as tawny 
in color, smooth, shining, and pubescent, with 
large subquadrate head, a short transverse 
prothorax, and a large abdomen with the side 
markings confluent, and the sutures with deep 
chestnut bands. It has not as yet been recorded 
for this country that we are aware of, though Fra. 22.—Goniodes dissimilia. 
in all probability it occurs here as well as in “fetPenny) 
Europe. 
