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to US at the time to be outside the ordinary range of variation of poppet. We 

 have re-examined the specimens, and found some differences from British, French 

 and German poppei which render it probable that these two ? ¥ belong to the 

 same new species as Mr. Ruddle's S. 



(?. The eighth abdominal sternite (text-fig. 1, VIII. st.) has a broader ventral 

 lobe than in poppei, the lobe, moreover, bearing a regular row of six long bristles. 

 The broad process of the clasper has at the upper distal angle a bunch of five 

 (or six) long bristles. Its dorsal margin is slightly more curved than in T. poppei, 

 and the process is rather narrower than in that species. The short ventral pro- 

 jection of the clasper (P) is less rounded than in popjiei. The movable exopodite F 

 is proximally narrower and less straight than in poppei. Its ventral margin is 

 convex from the apex to about the centre, and bears a row of six long bristles, this 

 row being far distant from the short ventral projection of the clasper. The outer 

 arm of the ninth sternite differs from that of poppei in the widened apical 

 portion being broader, whereas the rest of this arm appears to be narrower than 

 in poppei (the outline is not very distinct in the specimen). 



?. The two examples of this sex referred to above differ from true poppei 

 in the sinus of the seventh abdominal sternite and the eighth tergite being deeper 

 (text-fig. 2), in the bristles of the abdomen being less pointed, and those on the 

 eighth tergite fewer in number. The pronotal comb contains only twenty-one spines 

 (in the S twenty-two, in poppei twenty-three or twenty-four). _ Moreover, the reticu- 

 lation of the surface, which in poppei is most apparent on the ventral side of the 

 abdomen in the neighbourhood of the bristles, is in favosus ? also distinct on 

 the back of the thorax and abdomen and on the sides of the thorax. This difference 

 likewise holds good in the c? as regards the thorax, but the abdominal segments 

 are so much telescoped in the specimen that we cannot make out the surface 

 structure in detail. 



1 c? from Alger, April i5, 1913, oft' Crocidura rassida (A. Huddle). 



2 ? ? from Alger, March 21 and April 1, 1012, off Apodemus sylvaticus 

 hayi and Mas algirus (K. Jordan). 



A ? in our collection from Sardinia, collected by Ur. H. Krausse, approaches 

 T. favosus very closely and possibly represents a local form of that species. 



!). Leptopsylla amitina spec. nov. (text-fig. :J). 



S. An interesting species approaching the tropical African L. aetkiopicus 

 Roths. (l'J08) rather more than does L. algira Jord. & Roths. (1012) from 

 Eastern Algeria. 



Two bristles of the second antennal segment reach to the apex of the club. 

 The prothoracic comb contains twenty-six spines. The process P of the clasper 

 is not quite so slender as in L, algira, and bears a moderately long bristle distally 

 to the insertion of the exopodite in the same place where there is a small bristle in 

 L. aethiopicus, the corresponding bristle of L. algira being situated towards the 

 apex of the process. The exopodite F is somewhat slenderer than in L. algira, 

 and bears, as in that species, five fairly long bristles at the distal margin, of which 

 the second from the apex is the longest. The manubrium, as in L. aetkiopicus, 

 is longer than the clasper. The ventral apical lobe of the penis (Pen) is much 

 more curved than in the allied species. The outer arm of the ninth sternite is 

 so much covered in the specimen by the claspers that its outline and armature 



