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SUB-GENUS IV. GON1ODES. (Nitzsch.) 



Goniodes, Nitzsch, Burmeister, Stephens, Children. 

 SUB-GENERIC CHARACTER. 



HEAD large, temporal angles prominent and acute ; antenncc 

 in the males cheliform, the first joint very large and 

 thick, the third considerably smaller, recurved towards the 

 firsthand forming a claw, the fourth and fifth very small, 

 arising from the back of the third ; trabeculce none ; 

 abdomen very broad and flat, especially in the males. 



Found on birds of the Rasorial Order only. 



1. GONIODES FALCICORNIS. (Louse of the Peacock.) 



Plate XII. Fig. 1 and 3. 



Bright chestnut-yellow and shining ; head large, sub- 

 quadrate ; occipital angles acuminate ; the first joint of the 

 antennae in the male very large and dentate ; abdomen 

 broad and obtuse, light tawny yellow, with transverse 

 tongue-shaped lateral fasciae of a deep liver-colour, last 

 segment bright chestnut. 



Goniodes falcicomis. Nitzsch. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 293. Burmeister Hand- 

 buch, ii. pt. ii. p. 432. Stephens's Syst. Cat. pt. ii. p. 333. Pediculus 

 Pavonis, Linri. Syst. Nat. ii. 1019. Fabr. Syst. Ent. n. 27. p. 809. 

 Spec. Inst. T. ii. n. 31. p. 481. Mant. Inst. T. ii. n. 37. p. 370. 

 Schrank. Inst. Aust. n. 1028. Frisch* Inst. P. viii. tab. 4. Pat.z. F.51. 

 fig. 19. $. Stew. Elem. Nat. Hist. ii. 280. Turton, iii. 698. The 

 Louse of the Peacock, Albin. Spi. pi. 50. fig. inf. Shaw. Gen. Zool. vi. 

 pi. 119. fig. inf. Pulex pavonis, Redi. Ex. pi. xiv. $. Nirinus tetra- 

 gouocephalus, Olfers. 90. Ricinis Pavonis, Kirby and Spence, Int. 

 Ent. ii. pi. 6. fig. 3. $ . 



Head large, subquadrate ; clypeus broad and rotundate, 

 with two oblique deep chestnut fasciae, lateral margin deeply 

 sinuated before the eyes, base rotundate, occipital angles 

 acuminate, occiput convex, with two deep chestnut diagonal 

 bands ; eyes prominent; antennae large in the males, the 



