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about twenty on the widened lower portion of the segment. The stylet is longer 

 than in C. hirundinis. The pygidinm is shorter than its distance from the base of 

 the stylet. The tail of the receptaculum seminis is longer and somewhat broader 

 than in C. hirundinis. 



1 ? from Hammam-Meskoutine, found in nest of Ckelidon urbica, May 17, 1914. 



7. Leptopsylla amitina Jord. & Roths. (1912) (text-fig. 2) 

 A small series of both sexes from Hammam-Meskoutine, oft' Apodemus 



iylvaticus hayi. 



Originally described from a single S obtained by Mr. Ruddle on the same 



host at Bon-Medine, Oran. 



In the ? the two lower antepygidial bristles are equal in length, being 



Fie. 2. — Lepioptylla amitina, J . 



somewhat shorter than the third bristle, whereas the fourth (or most dorsal) is 

 very much shorter. The apical edge of the seventh abdominal sternite bears a short 

 narrow lateral lobe, which is sometimes barely indicated ; below this lobe the 

 segment is somewhat incurved and then excurved, as shown in the figure 

 (text-fig. 2). The head of the receptaculum seminis is somewhat shorter than in 

 L. algira Jord. & Roths. (1912). 



8. Stenoponia tripectinata Tirab. (1902) 

 A series from Hammam-Meskoutine, off' Mas muaculus, Mm algirus, Apodemus 



sylvaticus hayi, and Arvicanthis barbarus. 



On one individual of Mus musculus no less than twenty specimens of this large 



flea were found. 



