NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1911, 



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NEW SIPHONAPTERA FROM PERU. 



By THE Hon. IST. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, M.A. 



(13 text-fignres.) 



MR, C. H. TOWNSEND, the State Entomologist in Pern, has sent as a small 

 collection of Ectoparasites obtained from mammals in the Andes of Pern. 

 The Siphonaptera of this consignment are most interesting. Of the ten species no 

 less than seven are new, one of them representing an entirely new type connecting 

 the genus Stephanocircus and allies with the Leptopsi/lla gronp. 



In the Andesian States north of (!hile very few fleas have as yet beea collected. 

 The present collection goes far to prove that the Siphonapteroas fauna of the tropical 

 Andes is a very rich one. We congratulate Mr. Townsend on his success, and thank 

 him for his splendid contribution towards onr knowledge of the South American 

 Siphonaptera. 



1. Parapsyllus claviger spec, no v. (text-figs. 1, 2). 



(S ?. Nearest to P. simonsi Roths. (1904), but abundantly distinct in the 

 modified abdominal segments. The species agrees with P. simonsi in the labial 



Fig. 1. — Paraj)syUue claviger. 



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