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LOUSE OF TUKKEY. 
(Goniodes stylifer Nitzsch.) 
Nitzsch describes this species in Gerinar's Magazine (in, 294), and it 
has been frequently mentioned since 
that time. It was also described by 
Schrank under the name of Pediculus 
meleagris (Faun. Ins. Aust., 504). It 
is a large species, 3 millimetres or 
more in length, and quite readily dis- 
tinguished from other common species 
by the hind angles of the head, which 
are extended backward into long 
styles from the ends of which extend 
strong bristles. The thorax is an- 
gular with a black margin and the ab- 
domen is pale with transverse bands 
of dark color. 
The species probably has a distri- 
bution equal to that of the turkey 
itself, and with the other species com- 
mon to this fowl render it pretty 
Fig. 24.— Goniodes stylifer enlarged: a, mouth . 
parts ; b, antennae. (From Yerrill, after Cuvier.) thoroughly lUieStea. 
THE PEACOCK GONIODES. 
( Goniodes falcicomis Nitzsch. ) 
This large and common species appears to have been first recorded 
by Eedi, who figured it under the name of Pulex pavonis. Since that 
time it has engaged the attention of Linnaeus, Frisch, 
Olfers, Fabricius, Stephens, Schrank, Mtzsch, 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. ^ T 
It is a large species, 3 to 4 millimetres in length, 
of a bright reddish yellow color, with a large head F] 
the hind angles of which are acute and prominent, comis. (After 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. 
