76 THE AGRICULTURAL PESTS OF INDIA. 



Lice are classed by naturalists among the Anoplura, 

 and include the feather and hair-eating family Mallophaga, 

 with its genera Menopon, Trinoton, Docophorus, Nirmus, 

 Goniocotes, Gonioides, Lipeurus, Ornithobius, Trichodectes, 

 Hpematomyzus, Hsematopynus, Phthirius, and the true lice 

 genus Pediculus, which has P. capitis and its varieties. 

 Lice of different species, some of different genera, attack 

 birds, sheep, the dog, cat, ox, elephant, and the monkey. 

 Turkeys are the hosts of two species of lice, one named 

 Lipeurus meleagridis or polytrapezius, lives principally 

 on the wings ; the other, Gonioides stylifer, prefers the 

 head, neck, and breast of the bird. Morton's Cyclopaedia. 



Ligurus ruficeps is the sugar-cane beetle of the United 

 States. It is a stout black beetle, half an inch long, 

 which bores into the stalk of the sugar-cane underground. 

 It has not been traced in India. 



Lixus. A longish weevil, seemingly a species of Lixus, 

 one of the divisions into which the Longirostres have 

 been made, was constantly found by Mr. Thompson under 

 the bark of felled logs. It bores with facility through 

 the softer parts of wood. 



Longicornes or Capricorn beetles, a family of the order 

 Ooleoptera. Its more injurious genera are the Cerambyx, 

 Lamia, Leptura, Monochamus, Prionus, and Saperda. 



Loranthus. The epiphytic Loranthaceo3 parasites injured 

 the Acacia melanoxylon of the Neilgherries. The parasite 

 covered the larger branches, diverting the sap. See 

 Parasites. 



LucanidsB, or stag - beetles, are pre-eminently wood- 

 feeders. They live, in their larva stage, in the interior 

 of the trunks of large trees. Species of the genus occur 

 throughout India. Mr. Hope, writing on the insects 

 collected by Dr. W. Griffith in Assam, mentions Lucanus 



