• INSECTS. 'APTERA. 112. Pediculus. 695 
The femak beats like the ticking of a watch, and is often mifta- 
ken for the Ptinus pulfator. 
Apterous ; abdomen ovate : mouth pale ; eyes brown. 
Inhabits Europe. Frifch. Inf. 1 1, p, 2. tab, 10, 
Refembles the laft but is a little larger. 
Abdomen tranfverfely furrowed 1 mouth brown : eyes black. 
Mull. Zool. Dan. 2179. Fahr. Fn. Gran. p. 214. n. 181. 
Found in books, and is extremely aftivc. Body vvhitilh. 
112. PEDICULUS. Mouth witli a retrac- 
tile recurx ed fucker without probofcis: 
feelers 0 : antennce as long as the thorax: 
eyes '2; abdomen deprelled; legs 6, tormcd 
for running. Loufe. 
Thefe live by extrafting animal juices ; the lamtae and pupae are 
6-footed and nimble, refembling the perfeft infeft. 
^’•’nanus. Abdomen lobcd cinereous. 
Baker Micr. tab, 13. A?- 4 " Barbut Inf. tab. tS. Grv. 4. 
Albin Aran, tab- 42. Srjtamtn. Bib. tab. ij fg. 3 — 6. 
Found in the heads and on the garments of fuch as arc naturally 
uncleanly, cipecially boys. 
Abdomen emarglnate behind ; legs cheliform. Crab-hufe. 
Fedi Fxper. tab- 19. fg. i. 
Found on the groin and eyebrows of uncleanly men. 
Antennae of 5 articulations : abdomen hairy behind. 
Abdomen orbicular with a white line: fcutel 3-loDcd: 
fucker white. 
Inhabits America, and gets into the legs of the naked inhabitants, 
where it draws blood and depoliting its eggs in the wound, 
' occafions foul and malignant ulcers. 
Body rcddilh ; fucker armed with fniall hooks beneath. 
Found on the bodies of Swine. 
Fn.Suec. 1942, 
^’’’•^elli. Found on the body of the Cavla Cobaya or Guinea-pig. 
' 943 - cameli. 
