. Economic entomology . Genus H.^matopinus {Leach). Head not rostrate ; legs thick. This is the principal genus that is parasitic on mammals. With the exception of the preceding insect takea on the elephant, it includes all the blood-sucking lice that attack mammals other than man. Those that attack man have been separated from the rest, but in truth cannot well be separated, especially when regard is had to the louse of the monkey, which is excessively like that of the human species, and indeed forms a transition between them and the other species of this genus. They leave the body much soone
. Economic entomology . Genus H.^matopinus {Leach). Head not rostrate ; legs thick. This is the principal genus that is parasitic on mammals. With the exception of the preceding insect takea on the elephant, it includes all the blood-sucking lice that attack mammals other than man. Those that attack man have been separated from the rest, but in truth cannot well be separated, especially when regard is had to the louse of the monkey, which is excessively like that of the human species, and indeed forms a transition between them and the other species of this genus. They leave the body much sooner after death than the mallo- phagous specie?, vhich adhere to the feathers or fur for days.
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