ANOPLURORUM BRITANNIA. 179 



I have seen no other specimens than those in my own 

 collection, which I found on the Bittern (Botaurus stellaris). 



15. LIPEURUS EBRJSUS. (Louse of the Crane.) 



Plate XIII. Fig. 5. 



White, front of the head with four black spots ; abdomen 

 oblong ovate, each segment, excepting the first and last 

 two, with a mark resembling the Hebrew letter n Daleth. 



Lipeurus ebraeus. Nitzsch. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 293. Steph. Cat. pt. ii. p. 332. 

 Burmeister Handbuch, ii. pt. ii. p. 435. Pediculus Gruis. Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. ii. 1019. 24. Faun. Snec. 195 I. Fabr. Syst. Ent. 809. 23. Syst. 

 Inst. ii. 481. 27. Frisch. Inst. 5. 15. tab. 4. Stew. El em. 299.24. 

 Pulex Gruis. Redi. Expe. pi. iii. Oper. tab. 19, The Louse of the 

 Crane. Albin. Spi. pi. 44. fig. sup. 



Head obtusely triangular, deeply sinuated before the 

 eyes, a black spot on each side of the clypeus, and two upon 

 the vertex, two impressed lines from the antennae to the 

 occiput, base rotundate, with two angular brown spots ; 

 eyes pale yellow and prominent ; antennae in the male 

 with the first joint very large and cylindrical, slightly 

 curved, second and third very short, with a black spot on 

 the outer edge, the latter recurved and acute, fourth and 

 fifth very minute, in the female the first joint short, the 

 second long and subclavate, third shorter and thick, last 

 two much smaller: prothorax transverse, narrower before 

 than behind, slightly channelled, with two dark lines, base 

 rotundate ; metathorax subquadrate, sinuated at the shoul- 

 ders with two oblique depressed lines, base truncate, with 

 an angular black spot on each side ; abdomen large, sub- 

 clavate, apex ovate, with a narrow black margin, each seg- 

 ment, excepting the first and two last, with black figures on 

 each side resembling the Hebrew letter S (Daleth) ; legs 

 pale, yellow-white, anterior pair short, with the femora 



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