240 ORDER VII. Pediculirf* 



Genus IV. Pediculus. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 1016. 



The Pediculus has fix feet formed for 

 walking. 



It has two eyes* 



Its mouth contains an exferted fting. 



The antennae are as long as the thorax, 



The abdomen is depreffed, and as it were 

 formed of different lobes. 



But few of the pediculi of quadrupedes and 

 birds have been obferved, and the fpecific cha- 

 racters of (till fewer determined ; though it is 

 pretty certain that almofl; every different ani- 

 mal is infefted with a different fpecies of them. 



Schseffer fays, that the antennse of the Pedi- 

 culus are fetaceous, and the head diftincl from 

 the thorax, which parts appear to him to be 

 united in fome other genera belonging to this 

 this order. 



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