118 THE FLEA 



APPENDIX D 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



A. General Bibliography of the chief and most 

 recent works. Many have bibliographies of earlier 

 works. 



1. TASCHEXBERG (1880), Die Flohc. Halle. 



Although the author only describes 30 species, his book 

 forms the basis of all subsequent scientific work. He divides 

 fleas into (a) chigoes, (6) non-chigoes. Plates. Bibliography. 

 References to 73 earlier writers. 



2. KARSTEN (1864), Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Rhyncoprion 



penetrans. Bull Soc. Imp., Moscou. Vol. XXXVIL, p. 72. 



A full account of the life and habits of the chigoe. 

 Many references to older writers and travellers. 



3. WAGNER (1889), Aphanipterologische Studien. Hor. Soc. 



Ent. Ross. Vol. XXIIL, p. 199 ; (1893) Vol. XXVIL, p. 347 ; 

 (1898) Vol. xxxi., p. 539; (1902) Vol. xxxv., p. 17; (1903) 

 Vol. xxxvi., p. 125. 



A series of learned papers by a professor at the Russian 

 University of Kieff. He has also written in Russian. 



4. DAMPF (1907), Die Ost- und Westpreussische Flohfauna. 



Schriften der Physik.-okonom. Gesellschaft zu Konigs- 

 berg-i.-Pr., XLVIII. Jahrgang, p. 388. 



Contains an excellent general account of our present 

 knowledge of fleas. Short Bibliography. 



5. DAMPF (1910), Palaeopsylla Klebsiana n. sp. ein fossiler 



Floh aus dem baltischen Bernstein. Schriften der Physik.- 

 okonom. Gesellschaft zu K6nigsberg-i.-Pr., LI. Jahrgang, 

 n. 248. 



Good plates of the fossil flea in amber. 



