~'~~' XOTITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1914. 



bristle of the first bindtarsal segment almost reaches to the apex of the second 

 segment, and the longest bristle of the latter does not qnite extend to the apex of 

 the fourth segment. The fifth segment is rather narrower than the preceding ones 

 and has nearly straight sides. It bears five lateral jilantar bristles and three apical 

 ventral ones. Proportional lengths of the segments in the midtarsns : S 30, 23, 

 17,12,26; ? 31,24,15,11,23; in the hindtarsus : c? 61, 46, 26, 18, 30 ; ? 65,48, 

 25, 17,29. 



Modifed Segments. — i. The eighth sternite is verj- large, enveloping the 

 genitalia (VIII. st.). It is covered with very nnmerons bristles (text-fig. 2), of 

 which the apical ones are long and thick. In onr figure the bristles are left out in 

 the places where the clasper and ninth sternite shine through, as the armature of 

 these organs would have been much obscured in our figure, if the bristles of the 

 eighth tergite had been drawn on the top of those organs. The clasper is large and 



Fig. 3. — l^'otinpgylla herfjn^lcyisif. 



proximally produced into a rather slender, curved manubrium (M). The apex of 

 the clasper is rounded-triangular (P) and bears a number of minute hairs and two 

 long curved bristles, the latter being placed at the dorsal edge. The movable 

 exopodite F is more strongly rounded veiitrally than dorsally, tapering to an obtuse 

 j)oint. It bears seven long slender bristles along the ventral margin. The ninth 

 sternite (IX. st.) reminds one of that of Hystrichopsylla talpae by the armature of 

 the ventral arm. The outer surface of the widened jiortion of this ventral arm has 

 numerous hairs, and along the ventral margin there is a row of short, stout, spiui- 

 form bristles, two similar bristles being placed on the lateral surface. The vertical 



arm of the ninth sternite is very wide near its apex. ? . The seventh abdominal 



sternite (VII. st., text-fig. 3) is deeply sinuate (the proximal bristles of this segment 

 are not represented in our figure). The ventral portion of the eighth tergite 

 (VIII. st.) is rounded-triangular, as shown in the figure. It bears about twenty 

 large bristles near the ventral margin and apex, and has, further proximally, 

 numerous shorter and thinner bristles. There appear to be only two stout and short 



