24 Mites Injurious to Domestic Animals. 



Genus Sarcoptes, Latreille, 1806. 



Dorsal surface furnished with characteristic sharply pointed 

 (dentate) scales and also with symmetrically arranged rod-like 

 setae posteriorly. 



Mites of the genus Sarcoptes are parasitic on a fairly large number 



FIG. 7. 

 Dorsal view of male of Otodecte* cynotis, var. cam*, x 125. (Original.) 



of hosts, probably including all the domestic animals (mammals), 

 but specimens found on different hosts are remarkably similar in 

 structure. The author has examined examples of Sarcoptes from 

 man, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, lions, wolves, dogs, foxes, 



