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SUBORDER MALLOPHAGA. 197 
THE PEACOCK GONIODES. 
(Goniodes falcicornis Nitzsch.) 
This large and common species appears to have been first recorded 
by Redi, who figured it under the name of Puler pavonis. Since that 
time it has engaged the attention of Linnzus, Frisch, 
Olfers, Fabricius, Stephens, Schrank, Nitzsch, Bur- 
meister, Stewart, Panzer, Denny, Giebel, Piaget, and 
numerous other writers, who have described, figured, 
and discussed it under one name or another, from 
which we would infer that it must have been one of 
the most common and frequently met with of any of 
the parasites of our domesticated fowls. 
It is a large species, 3 to 4 mm. in length, of a By? foe ] 
bright reddish-yellow color, with a large head, the ric. 120.—Goniodes fal- 
hind angles of which are acute and prominent. Sse SY (af- 
er Denny). 
The first joint of the antenna in the male is large 
and bears a prominent tooth. The abdomen is broad, light yellow, with 
prominent transverse lateral bands extending nearly to the middle line. 
It has been taken repeatedly in America. 
THR PHEASANT GONIODES. 
(Goniodes colchicus Denny.) 
This species is not likely to prove of any special interest in this 
country, except where pheasants have been introduced, and we will 
simply mention it and repeat the diagnostic description given by Denny: 
Bright chestnut-yellow; head subquadrate, temporal angles obtuse, thorax with 
a broad ferruginous margin; abdomen pale, yellow-white, nearly orbicular, each 
segment, excepting the first and last two, with a pitchy black arcuate fascia. 
He refers this species to the insect mentioned under the name of 
Pediculus phasiani by Fabricius, with a question as to their identity. 
CGoniodes gigas Tasch (?). 
Professor Comstock, in his Introduction to Entomology, first ed., 
Pt. I, p.86, names this as a parasite of the hen, but he states no author- 
ity for the species, and we are unable to find any other reference to it, 
unless it be intended for Goniocotes gigas Taschenberg. 
LIPEURUS OF THE CHICKEN AND PHEASANT. 
(Lipeurus heterographus ‘itzsch.) 
This species, first recorded by Nitzsch, would appear from the writ- 
ings of European naturalists to be rather common, but it has seldom 
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