. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. Figure 192a.—Heterojjsocus dispar V.; wings of male, more enlarged. Figure 193.—Louse of tropic-bird; x 6^^; 193a, the same, dark variety; x 6. From drawings by A. H. V. and interrupted in the middle, the distal part forming an irregularly stellate or palmate spot, with a veinlet along the middle of each lobe ; the three distal branches are bifurcated. Abdomi
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. Figure 192a.—Heterojjsocus dispar V.; wings of male, more enlarged. Figure 193.—Louse of tropic-bird; x 6^^; 193a, the same, dark variety; x 6. From drawings by A. H. V. and interrupted in the middle, the distal part forming an irregularly stellate or palmate spot, with a veinlet along the middle of each lobe ; the three distal branches are bifurcated. Abdominal append- ages short, tapered, incurved, hairy, close together; ocelli three, in a triangle between eyes. Length, ™™. The Book-louse [Atropos divinatoria) is common. Fig. 194. I.—Mallophaga ; Bird Lice. Doubtless numerous species occur on poultry, and on the various wild birds that visit Bermuda, but they have not been collected hitherto.* Tropic-hird Bouse. [Trinoton luridutn Nitz.) Figure 193, 193a. I am indebted to my son, Mr. A. H. Verrill, for several specimens of this large species, from the Bermuda Tropic-bird. The thorax is dark brown or black, the sutures bordered with yellow, and each * Numerous American species are described and figured by Prof. F. V. Kellogg, in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sciences, vol. vi, pp. 31-168, 431-548, 28 plates, 1896 ; Occas. Papers Calif. Acad., vi, pp. 1-224, 17 pi., 1899; Journ. N. York Entom. Soc, X, p. 20; List of North American Mallophaga, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii, pp. 39-100, 1899. See also Osborn, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Verrill, A. E. (Addison Emery), 1839-1926. New Haven, Conn. , The author
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