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The Hijlory s/ANIMAL S» 
Pediculus pubis . 
The Pediculus of the pubes> Ct&feiQttfC* 
This is fmaller than the common loufc : the body is ffiorter, and lefs deeply loba- 
ted : the legs are fiiort and flender ; the head is oblong • the antenns are ffiort, and 
the eyes are fituated behind them : the hinder part of the body is covered with filvery 
hairs. ' 
It’s natural relidence is about the pubes, but it will live any where, if there is 
hair, as in the eye-brows and on the bread, and, when once fixed, is very difficultly 
diflodged. Authors call it Pediculus ferus, Pediculus inguinalis, and Pediculus 
morpio. 
Pediculus ligni antiqui . 
The Pediculus of old wooaL 
The body is oblong, flattiffi, and of a pale browniffi white, but there is a brown 
annular mark on it, and a brown fpot behind toward the anus: the head is 
oblong ; the eyes are large and yellow j the antennas are of the length of the whole 
body; the fize is about that of the common loufe, and there are fpots all down the 
fides, of a reddiffi colour, one on every fegment of the body. 
It is common in decayed wood that is kept dry, and in old books. Blancard calls 
it Pediculus ligni; Ray, Pediculo cognatus et adfimilis. The female makes that odd 
noife, which refembles the beating of a watch, as (he wooes the male: the male alfo 
makes it in return, and fometimes begins it himfelf. 
Pediculus adorn dum* 
The fove Pediculus 1 lift*. 
The body is of an oblong, oval figure, and of a whitiffi colour j the tail is bifid- 
the fides are thin and fharp, and there is a prominent fpot on the edge of each feg¬ 
ment : the line carried along the back is elevated, and has an obfolete protuberance at 
every divifion, and there are the fame number of fpots in the fpaces between that line 
and the fides: the legs are flender and brown; the antennas are alfo fiender, and of 
the fame colour. 
It is common on the branches of fhrubs and plants in our fioves. 
Befides thefe, there are a great many others which are peculiar to the bodies 
of the different fpecies of birds and quadrupeds. Redi has accurately defcribed and 
figured many of thefe; they are named, from the bodies of the animals they are 
found on, Pediculus bovis, Pediculus corvi ; the Loufe of the ox, the Loufe of the 
raven, &c. 
The moff fingular of thefe are, i. The Pediculus of the bear. 2. The Pediculus 
of the lion. 3. The Pediculus of the opoffum. 4. That of the wild cat. 5. and 
6. The larger and fmaller of the ox. 7. That of the hawk. 8. That of the thruffi. 
9. That of the turkey. 10. That of the crane. 11. That of the hen. 12. That 
of the hedge-fparrow ; thefe all vary in their forms, as do alfo thofe which infeft other 
fpecies of animals, and are indeed as diftindt as thofe animals j but to figure and de- 
fcribe them all would be to make this volume a hiftory of Lic.e, not of Infedts in 
general. 
MONOCULUS. 
f | ^ H E body is ffiort, of a roundifh figure, and covered with a firm crufiaceous 
1 fkin : the fore legs are ramofe, and ferve for leaping and fwimming : there is but 
one eye whch is large, and is compofed of three fmaller. 
Moff of the fpecies of this genus are reckoned by authors among the microfcopic 
animls, but improperly 5 they are fufficiently vifible to the naked eye. 
Monoculm 
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