( 543 ) 

 Tablk showing the Numbeu 01' Teeth ik the Combs (C. elotigatius). 



Abdomen. 



0. Ceratopsylla octactenus (PI. XVI. fig. 7 ?, l) S). 



C. ootocfejms Kolenati, ParasUend. Chiropt. p. 31 (1856), t. III. f. 31 (1857) ; Wagner, iioi: Svc. 

 r^r £«<■ Rons. XXXI. p. 26rt. IX f. 16 (1898). • 



^ ^^- The present species h<as been fully desoribeil by Dr. Wagner. 1 figure the ? 



on PI. XVI. f. T. At the posterior edge of the episternum of the metathorax are 

 one long and two short hairs. Further characters are the single row of hairs on the 

 enlarged seventh sternite of the abdomen of thejemalc, and the four hairs beneath 

 the stigma of the eighth tergitc in the same sex: PL XVI. f. 9. 



//'(/>. Scotflpliil'is pipistrcUus, Tring ; Vi'spcrtilio nattercri, Tring. 



7. Ceratopsylla intermedius sp. nov. 



This species is allied to (^'. rloni/ntus, but it is somewhat smaller. 



The ninth tergite of the male difters tVom that of ('. eloiujatna as follows : the 

 mauubrinm is narrower : the dorsal edge is less indented and lacks one of the 

 longest hairs. The moveable portion, moreover, is rounded at its upper edge 

 instead of being curved (PI. XVII. f 15). 



The species further difters in having a single row of hairs on the enlarged 

 seventh sternite of the />//»/ A-, and only three hairs below the stigma on the eighth 

 tergite. 



liength 'V'ih mm. 



Ihih. Srotopliilas xfrotinus, Brighton,* and Yaldiug, Keut.t 



This species appears to be exclusively confined to the Serotine bat (■Scotop^ilus 

 .•icrotiniis). I have a fairly large scries of it, all of wliich exhibit the characters 

 mentioned above. 



' Messrs. Brazonor lii-os. 



t Mr. Opilvie Grant and Captnin Savile Uoid. 



