Osborn (1896) records this species from Iowa; Peters (1928) Ohio; 

 Peters (1936) Maryland and New York; Emerson (19A0) Oklahoma; Brown and 

 Wilk (1944) Alberta; Stirrett (1952) Ontario; Whitehead (1954) Quebec; 

 and Ansari (1957) California and Kansas. 



Measurements: Bruelia rotundata (Osborn, 1896) 



Head Length .46 



Head Width .55 



Prothorax .36 



Pterothorax Width .60 



Abdomen Length .91 



Abdomen Width .81 



Total Length 1.77 



Specimens Host Locality Date Collector 



1 slide Corvus bvaahyrhynchos Middletown,Conn. lX-6-1925 O.L.Austin, Jr . 



(USNM) 

 Mt. Carmel,Conn. 111-28-1943 G.H. Plumb 

 N. Haven, Conn. III-27-1937 G.H. Plumb 

 1 slide " " Durham, NH 11-7-1948 E.O.Hooghkirk 



Wakefield, NH IX-14-1964 G.L.Walker 



UNH Coll. 



Bruelia subis (Carriker, 1963a) 



Hirundiniella subis Carriker, 1963a. Rev. Brasil. Biol., 23: 315, 



fig. 32. 

 Type host: Progne subis (Linnaeus) — Purple Martin. 



Dorsal preantennal carinae not broken near frons; inner sternal 

 carinae very wide and extending back beyond ends of dorsal carinae, and 

 forward to anterior plate, where they are fused with the dorsal carinae. 

 Abdominal chaetotaxy long. 



It 



Bruelia subtilis (Nitzsch, 1874) 



Nirmus subtilis Nitzsch, 1874. In Giehel , Insecta Epizoa: 137. 

 Bruelia subtilis obligata Eichler, 1954. Nach. Natur. Mus . 



Aschaf fenburg, 42: 63, pi. 13, fig. 6. 

 Type host: Passer domestious (Linnaeus) — House Sparrow or Passer 

 montanus (Linnaeus) — European Tree Sparrow. 



I have no description of this species of Mallophaga. 



Wilson (1958) collected B. subtilis on 8 of 64 House Sparrows in 

 Kentucky. 



Bruelia tenuis (Burmeister, 1838) 



Nirmus tenuis Burmeister, 1838. Handb. Ent . , 2: 429. 

 Type host: Riparia riparia (Linnaeus) — Bank Swallow. 



I have no data on this species of Bruelia and have been unable 

 to collect the Bank Swallow, Riparia riparia. 



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