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SIPHONAPTEEA. 



GEN. PULEX, L. 

 Pulex, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. x. p. 614 (1758). 



PULEX IREITANS, L. (1758). 



Pulex irritans, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. x. p. 614, No. 1 (1758). 

 $ . Proteles cristatus. 

 5 3 $ > $ " Alleged to have come off a field mouse, Cape Town." 



Jordan and Eothschild (Revis. Non-combed Eyed Siphonaptera, 

 p. 12, 1908) have already recorded this cosmopolitan satellite of man 

 from Deelfontein (Cape Colony) off Fells caracal and Tinamus 

 spec. ; also from Kingwilliamstown, where it occurs freely in Kaffir 

 kraals (Godfrey). 



GEN. ECHIDNOPHAGA, Olliff. 

 Echidnophaga, Olliff, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) i. p. 172 (1886). 



ECHIDNOPHAGA GALLINACEUS, Westwood (1875). 



Sarcopsylhts gallinaceus, Westwood, Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 246 



(1875). 

 2 J ? . Homo. Taxidermist's room, Cape Town Museum. 



About 50 examples, many mutilated. Strix flammed, in box which 

 had been occupied by a "(lassie " (Procavia capensis). 



20 $ J . On Bluebok (Cephalophus monticola). 



50 $ $ , 10 $ . Domestic Fowls. 



10 $ $ , 35 ? ? . Dog. Livingstone, N.W. Ehodesia. 



This pest is apparently common over South Africa, occurring on a 

 variety of hosts, but particularly on animals of the farmyard fowls, 

 ducks, dogs, and cats, rats, and sometimes on man. Dr. Peringuey 

 remarks that the fleas taken at Livingstone were " making the dog's 

 life a perfect misery." For some S.A. records, see Jordan and 

 Eothschild, Eevis. of the Sarcopsyllidae, p. 54, Liverpool, 1906. 



ECHIDNOPHAGA LAKINA, Jord. and Eothsch. (1906). 



Echidnophaga larina, Jordan and Eothschild, Revision of the 

 Sarcopsyllidae, Thomps. Yates and Johnst. Lab. Eeport, vol. 

 vii. pt. i. pp. 49-51, pi. i. f. 12, pi. ii. f. 18, pi. iii. f. 25 (1906). 



2 $ 3 , 8 ? ? . Onjcteropus capensis (Ant-eater). 



Mr. Eothschild has kindly confirmed this identification. E. larina 



has occurred in Cape Colony, German East Africa, Somaliland, and 



