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THE PHEASANT GONIODES. 
(Goniodes colchicus Denny.) 
This species is not likely to prove of any special interest in this coun- 
try, 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. 
GONIODES GIGAS. 
Professor Comstock, in his Introduction to Entomology, page 86, 
names this as a parasite of the hen, but he states no authority for the 
species and we are unable to find any other reference to it. 
LIPEURUS OF THE CHICKEN AND PHEASANT, ETC. 
(Lipeurus heterographus Nitzsch.) 
This species, first recorded by Nitzsch, would appear from the writ- 
ings of European naturalists to be rather common, but it has not to 
our knowledge been taken in this country, a fact which may be due 
rather to the little attention that has been given to collecting these in- 
sects in this country than to their absence. 
According to the figures given by Piaget, it differs decidedly from 
the variabilis, with which it is most likely to be confused, in having 
the head rather narrowed in front instead of inflated, and the body is 
much stouter. 
Besides occurring upon the common domestic fowl, it is said to occur 
upon pheasants of certain species. 
LOUSE OF THE GUINEA FOWL. 
(Lipeurus numidce, Denny.) 
Denny described this species under the name of Nirmus numidce, but 
Piaget refers it to the genus Lipeurus. 
It is characterized by Denny as " livid yellow, shining and smooth ; 
head subpanduriform, lateral margin black ; abdomen with two fuscous 
interrupted dorsal fascise." 
As he states that he found " two specimens," it would appear not to 
have occurred in great abundance. 
