11. SIPHONAPTERA ET ANOPLFRA, 



1. Siphonaptera 



by the 



Hon. N. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD. 



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The specimens treated of in the present article were collected by Professor 

 YNGVE SJOSTEDT in the Kilimandjaro-Meru District and it is at his request that I 

 have undertaken to examine the collection and describe the new species it contains. 

 I agreed the more readily to his request, as practically no Siphonaptera are recor- 

 ded from tropical East Africa. 



Of the 6 species of Siphonaptera (about 250 specimens) that Professor SJO- 

 STEDT secured no less than 3 are new. One of these must be placed in a new genus 

 and is a form of great interest. 



KHii<lii(>ii]iai,M larina KOTHSCH. 



k'rlndnophaga hirina ROTHSCHILD, THOMPS. Yates & JOHNST. Laborat. Report VII. 1. 



p. 49. n. 3. t. 1. fig, 12, t. 2. fig. 18. t. 3. fig. 25 (1906) (Cape 

 Colony, Somaliland, Abyssinia). 



A long series of both sexes from the Massaisteppe between Kilimandjaro and 

 Meru, off Phacochoenis africaniit*, August 4. and October 9. 



r;in- L. 

 Pule.r penelmnx LINNE, Syst. Nat. (ed. x) p. 614. n. 2 (1758). 



A number of ? ? from Kibonoto, November 6. 



This American insect has become a real pest in tropical Africa, being very 

 abundant in all suitable places from the west to the east coast. It has apparently 

 not yet reached Abyssinia and Somaliland. 



Sjuitedts Kilintandfaro-^Ieru Expedition. 11. 1 



