. Agricultural entomology for students, farmers, fruit-growers and gardeners. Insects; Insects, Injurious and beneficial. PARASITA 163 chitinous eminence, and there is a broad black band on the last segment, broken near the middle. (See Fig. 118.) The male has the abdomen marked beneath with a large black area extending forward from the end of the terminal segment, so as to occupy the central portion of the last three se2 Fig. 118.—Hcematopinus urius: a, female; b, ventral view of posterior segments of male; c, leg, showing protractile disk of tibia—enlarged. (Author's illustration, Bu
. Agricultural entomology for students, farmers, fruit-growers and gardeners. Insects; Insects, Injurious and beneficial. PARASITA 163 chitinous eminence, and there is a broad black band on the last segment, broken near the middle. (See Fig. 118.) The male has the abdomen marked beneath with a large black area extending forward from the end of the terminal segment, so as to occupy the central portion of the last three se2 Fig. 118.—Hcematopinus urius: a, female; b, ventral view of posterior segments of male; c, leg, showing protractile disk of tibia—enlarged. (Author's illustration, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Ag.) A curious provision is found in the feet for strengthening the hold upon the hair. It consists of a circular pad-like organ or disk in the outer portion of the tibia, which is received in a conical cavity in the end of the tibia, and which can be forced out so as to press upon the hair held between the claw of the tarsus and the end of the 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 Osborn, Herbert, 1856-1954. Philadelphia, New York, Lea & Febiger
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