Archive image from page 500 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 SUCTORIA. 489 founded with the abdomen, and the four hind legs very robust. (See Dr. Alibert's fine work upon the maladies of the skin.) Other si)ccies, found upon different quadrupeds, haA-e been figured by Redi, but in a coarse manner. Tliat which lives upon the Pig lias the thorax very narrow, with the abdomen very broad {Pedicit/iis Suis, Linn., foiTning Leach's g-enus ). The Louse of the Butïalo, figured by D
Archive image from page 500 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 SUCTORIA. 489 founded with the abdomen, and the four hind legs very robust. (See Dr. Alibert's fine work upon the maladies of the skin.) Other si)ccies, found upon different quadrupeds, haA-e been figured by Redi, but in a coarse manner. Tliat which lives upon the Pig lias the thorax very narrow, with the abdomen very broad {Pedicit/iis Suis, Linn., foiTning Leach's g-enus ). The Louse of the Butïalo, figured by De Geer (Ins. vol. vii. pi. 1, f. 12), is more siii'-ular. {Pediculiis Cervi, Panzer, belongs to the dipterous genus Melophagus.) The other species {Nirmidea, Leach), such as Ricinus, De Geer, Nh-nius, Ilerm. & Leach, have the mouth on the under side of the head, and composed, on the outside, of two lips, and of two hooks an4 mandibles. The tarsi are very distinct, articulated, and terminated by two equal nails. With the exception of a single species, that of the Dog, all the rest are found exclusively upon birds. The head is generally large, sometimes triangular, or in the others in the form of a semicircle or crescent, and has often angular projections. It differs sometimes in both sexes, as well as the antennœ. I have perceived, in many species, two simple eyes close together, on each side of the head. According to observations communicated to me by M. Savigny, these insects have nKixillae, with a very small palpus upon each, hidden by the lower lip, which has also similar organs. They have, also, a kind of tongue. M. Leclerc de Laval has stated to me that he discovered, in their stomach, morsels of the feathers of birds, which he believes is their only food. De Geer asserts, never- theless, that he found the stomach of the Ricinus of the Chaffinch filled with blood, with which it had gorged itself. It is also known that these insects can subsist but a very short time upon
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