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This species is somewhat smaller than the lice infesting most of the 
larger mammals, the full-grown individuals being nearly one-tenth of 
an inch long. It is described generally as of a light-red or ashy flesh 
color, but evidently varies as the other species, according to condition 
of the body as well as age of specimens. In preserved specimens these 
colors become lighter, assuming a yellowish hue, the abdomen, except 
where darkened by the intestine and its contents, appearing a shade 
lighter than the front part of the body. The abdomen is thickly cov- 
ered with fine hairs and minute warty eminences, these latter when mag- 
nified about 300 diameters appearing like the scales of a lizard or fish- 
Specimens from different breeds of dogs do not appear to have been 
noticed as different, though a form described as H. Mcolor by Lucas 
may perhaps be found to present race characteristics. 
THE LOUSE OF THE CAMEL. 
(Hcematopinus cameli Eedi.) 
We follow Giebel and Piaget in admitting this species, though it 
does not appear to have been observed by any modern naturalist. 
Piaget says (Les Pedic, p. 644) : " La figure que donne Eedi, le seul 
qui ait observe cette espece, se rapproche beaucoup de celle de VuriusP 
LICE INFESTING THE GIRAFFE, DEER, AND ANTELOPE. 
(Hcematopinus sp.) 
Closely related to the lice infesting the other hoofed quadrupeds are 
the lice infesting respectively the giraffe, deer, and antelope. The 
species infesting the giraffe (CamelopardaUs giraffa) was described by 
Giebel under the name Hcematopinus brevicomis ; that infesting the 
deer was first mentioned by Redi and described and named by 
Nitzsch as Hcematopinus erassicornis ; it is recorded from the red deer 
( Cervus elaphns). The Hcematopinus tibialis Piaget, from Antilopa maori, 
is, according to its author, represented by varieties on the Antilopa sp. 
and the Antilopa subcutturosa, and he considers it possible that the H. 
cervicaprce Lucas, from Antiloi^a cervicapra, is also a variety of this 
same species. 
THE SUCKING LOUSE OF THE GOAT. 
(Hcematopinus stenopsis Burmeister.) 
We have no record of this species having been observed in this coun- 
try, and judging by the references to it in standard works it must be of 
rather rare occurrence in countries where these animals are kept in 
greater abundance than here. 
The species is not, so far as at present known, transmissible to any 
other domestic animal, and if ever becoming abundant will doubtless 
