ANOPLURORUM BRITANNLE. 13 



ments, and generally orbicular ; last segment in the 

 female deeply bilobate. 



LEGS all formed for climbing; the anterior pair rather 

 slender, posterior with the femur thickened ; tibia long, 

 sub-clavate, strongly toothed at its apex ; tarsus slender, 

 sinuated anteriorly with a large fleshy pulvillus, upon 

 which is a few setae ; ungues long slender, curved with a 

 protuberance at the base, in other respects like the 

 posterior legs of the last genus. 



1. PEDICULUS CAPITIS. (Head Louse.) 



Plate XXVI. Fig. 2. 



Ashy-white, thorax elongate, quadrate, abdomen ovate, 

 lobate laterally, the whole with a blackish interrupted 

 margin. 



Fed. capitis. Nitz. Germ. Mag. iii. 305. Burmeister. Hand. d. Ent. i. pt. 



1. Burmeist. Gen. Insect. Lam. Ani. San Ver. v. p. 50. 2. Pou 

 de la tete, Lat. Hist. nat. des Crust, et Inst. t. 8. p. 94. Latr. Gen. 

 Crust, etlnst. i. 167. 1. Le Pou Ordinaire, Geoff. Hist, de Insect, t. 



2. p. 597. Pou human de la tete, De Geer. Mem. Inst. t. 7. p. 67. pi. 

 1. f. 6. Pediculus humanus, Var. i. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1016. 

 Faun. Suec. 1939. Fab. Syst. Ant. 340-75. i. Syst. Ent. 804. Spe. 

 Insect. 476. Swamm. Bibl. Natu. p. 29. tab. i. f. 2. Mull prod. 2180. 

 Faun Frid. 798. RediExpe. tab. 18. Redi Oper. tab. 25. Albin aran. 

 t. 42. Bononin Microg. f. 56. Baker Micros, tab. 13. f. 4. Schaeff. 

 Elem. tab. 95. Schrank. Bey tr. 112. Sulz. Inst. tab. 22. f. 145. 

 f-edermull. Micros. 45. t. 21. Berk. Syn. i. p. 170. Bar but, genera 

 Insec. pi. 18. 4. Stew. Elem. ii. p. 297. 2. Edit. Shaw Gen. Zool. vi. p. 

 450. Turt. iii. p. 695. Hooke'e Micro, p. 68. pi. 66. Ped. cervicalis, 

 Leach. Edin. Ency. ix. p. 77. Leach Zool. Misc. iii. p. 66. Samouelle 

 Ent. Comp. p. 142. Step. Cat. pt. ii. p. 329. Pou de la tete, Lam. 

 Animaux. San Vert. t. V. p. 50-2. 



Cadaverous, ashy-white, chagreened and hairy ; head 

 short, globose ; occiput rotundate. Eyes large, black, and 



