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4. NIRMUS NUMID^E. Denny. (Louse of the Pintado.) 



Plate X. Fig. 5. 



Livid yellow, shining and smooth ; head sub-panduri- 

 form, lateral margin black; abdomen with two fuscous in- 

 terrupted dorsal fascia3. 



Head large, sub-panduriform, a quadrangular spot before 

 each eye, and the lateral margin black; vertex concave, basa 7 

 angles acute ; eyes prominent, pale yellow ; antennae short, 

 filiform, rather thick, the second joint very long ; prothorax 

 transverse, posterior margin rotundate, lateral margin with 

 a pitchy spot on each side anteriorly ; metathorax the width 

 of the preceding, much produced in the centre of the pos- 

 terior margin, with a fasciculus of hairs in a sinus on each 

 side ; abdomen ovate, the lateral margin with a narrow 

 fuscous band, the first seven segments with a double series 

 of fuscous patches, forming two interrupted dorsal bands, 

 last two with a sub-angular fascia ; legs pale yellow-white, 

 rather thick, with a dark annulus at the extremity of the 

 femora and tibiae ; tarsi ferruginous yellow. Length 1 . 



I found two specimens of this species on a Pintado (Nu- 

 mida Meleagris). 



5. NIRMUS OLIVACEUS? (Louse of the Nutcracker.) 



Plate XI. Fig 5, 



Pale fulvous-yellow ; head subcordate, with a pitchy spot 

 on each side ; abdomen with a pitchy black lateral margin ; 

 superior margin of the femora fuscous. 



Nirmus olivaceus? Buraieister Handbuch ii. pt. ii. p, 431. sp. 26. 



Head subcordate, clypeus emarginate, base truncate, 

 lateral margin pale fuscous, with a pitchy conical spot, and 

 deep sinus before each eye, and two impressed sigmoid 

 lines from the antennae united at the occiput ; eyes small ; 



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