Head Length 

 Head Width 

 Prothorax Width 

 Pterothorax Width 

 Abdomen Length 

 Abdomen Width 

 Total Length 



.50 

 .38 

 .23 

 .38 



.00 

 .48 

 .75 



.58 



.47 

 .30 

 .48 



1.32 

 .67 



2.23 



Specimens Host Locality 



1 slide Buteo jcovaioensis Harpswell, Me. 



1 slide " " Winchester, NH 



1 slide Buteo lagopus Rye, NH 



2 slides " " Winchester, NH 



Date 



XI-28-1926 



IX-25-1933 



IX-1-1934 



1-7-1934 



Collector 



A. 0. Gross 



(USNM) 



L.R.Nelson 



(USNM) 



L.R.Nelson 



(USNM) 



L.R.Nelson 



(USNM) 



118. 

 rit . 



Mus , 



Zbl., 73; 



Degeeriella fusca (Denny, 1842) 



Nirmus fuscus Denny, 1942. Mon. Anopl. Brit.: 49 and 

 Nirmus aeruginosi Denny, 1952. List Brit. Animals in I 



pi. 11, Anoplura: 16 {nn for N. fuscus Denny, 1842). 

 Nirmus socialis Giebel, 1874. Insecta Epizoa: 127. 

 Kelerinirmus airci Boetticher and Eichler, 1954. Biol. 



215. 

 Type host: Circus aeruginosis (Linnaeus). 

 New England host : 



Circus cyaneus (Linnaeus) — Marsh Hawk. 



Dorsal surface of head with an area of lighter sclerotization be- 

 tween the anterior dorsal setae. Inner dorsal margin of marginal 

 carina indented medially. Tergites II-III with median indentation; 

 central area of tergite II more strongly pigmented than lateral areas. 

 Pleural thickening broad and strongly pigmented with dark inner line, 

 contrasting with the rather lightly sclerotized terga but not as marked 

 in Circus cyaneus as in Circus aeruginosus . 



Peters (1936) reports this species from Alabama, New Hampshire, 

 Pennsylvania and South Carolina; Brimley (1938) North Carolina; Emerson 

 (1940) Oklahoma; and Whitehead (1954) from Quebec. 



Specimens Host 



1 9 



1 slide 



1 record 



Circus cyaneus 



Locality 



Cape Cod, Mass, 

 Newmarket, NH 



Date 



X-15-1901 



Collector 



UNH 



C.M.Herman 



E.G.Davis 



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