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PLATE. CCXCI, 
PEDICULUS COLUMBA. 
Picrton’s Louse. 
APTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Beak retractile, and recurved; feelers none : antennz length of the 
thorax : eyes two; abdomen depreffed, and fublobate: feet fix, form- 
ed for climbing. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Body flender, thickeft towards the end, whitifh, with a ferruginous 
Jine on each fide. 
Pepicutus CoLtuMB«#: corpore filiformi ferrugineis poftice clavato. 
: Fab, Syft. Ent. 809. $1, 
Pediculus oblongus filiformis albicans, corporis lateribus utrinque 
ferrugineis. Geoff. Inf. 2.599. 7. 
| Pulex Columbx Majoris. Redi de Lnfeciis tab, 2. fig. 1. 
This is the kind of Loufe found on the common Pigeon. It 
differs {pecially from thofe of other Birds and Animals, as the fignifi- 
cant appellation Pediculus Columbe implies. 
