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Menopon pallidum. Nitzsch. Germ. Mag. iii. p. 299. Steph. Cat.pt. ii. p. 

 334. Burmeister Handbuch, ii. pt. ii. 440. Nirmus trigonocephalus. 

 Olfers. 90. Pediculus Gallinse. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 1020. 32. Faun. 

 Suec. 1959. Fabricius Spec. Insec. ii. Syst. Ent. 809. 29. Syst. Inst. 

 ii. 482. 33. Geoff. Inst. ii. 601. ii. Pauz. Faun. Germ. 51. fig. 21. 

 Stew. Ele. ii. p. 299. Turton,iii 698. Schrank. Beytr.114.3.? Pulex 

 capi. Redi Exper. tab. 16. fig. 1. 



Head obtusely triangular, slightly sinuated on the lateral 

 margin with a dark pitchy spot before the eyes ; clypeus with 

 two large chestnut spots, vertex depressed, base truncate ; 

 antennae capitate, conspicuous, the first joint long, cylin- 

 drical, second very short, third transverse, fourth very large 

 arid oblong, terminated by a fasciculus of hairs ; eyes dark ; 

 prothorax the width of the head, transverse, sub-elliptical, 

 with a depressed line across the centre, and one on each 

 lateral margin, base with several long hairs; metathorax 

 large, sub-conical, posterior margin rotundate, lateral angles 

 acute ; abdomen elongate ovate, segments equal ; stigmatic 

 orifice deep ; legs rather thick ; anterior femora large and 

 rotundate, tibiae clavate, with a row of stiff hairs on the su- 

 perior surface. cT,? f. 



Found in great abundance on Poultry, running over the 

 hands of those who are plucking fowls, and difficult to brush 

 off, from the smoothness of their bodies. 



'2. MENOPON FULVO-MACULATUM. Denny. (Louse of 



the Quail.) 

 Plate XXI. Fig. 6. 



Fulvous yellow and pubescent ; head semi-lunar, with a 

 pitchy transverse spot on each side ; abdomen clavate, with 

 pale spots on the lateral margin. 



Head semi-lunar, base concave, lateral margin with a 

 pitchy transverse spot ; prothorax large, ob-conical, truncate 

 behind, with a depression down each lateral margin, and one 



