12 Fleas of Eastern United States 



'Rabbit," "Coyote," Cooper's Hawk (Accipter cooperi (Bona- 

 parte)), Domestic Turkey ("Melagris gallopava") , "Deer," 

 English Sparrow (Passer domesticus domesticus (Linnaeus) ) , 

 Florida Bob- white (Colinus virginianus floridanus (Coues) ) , 

 "Jaybird," "Quail," "Chicken." 



Eastern localities. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, 

 Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, 

 North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 

 Texas, Virginia. (Tropical regions of the world.) 



Type material. Numerous specimens from the "domestic 

 fowl" at Colombo, Ceylon. Location of the types not ascertained. 



Tunga penetrans (Linnaeus) 



(Plate III, figs. 8, 9) 



1758 Pulex penetrans Linnaeus, Syst Nat. 10th Ed., p. 614. 



1838 Tunga penetrans Jarocki, Zoology or Gen. Desc. Anim., p. 50, PI. II, 



figs. 10-13. 

 1921 Tunga penetrans Rothschild, Ectoparasites, 1:129. 



This species, which is commonly known under the various 

 popular names (particularly "jigger" and "chigoe") , is an im- 

 portant pest in tropical and subtropical America but is not yet 

 established in the United States. Some years ago Baker (1904, 

 p. 374) suggested that it might be introduced into Florida, but 

 no authentic record of such an occurrence has yet been made 

 known. It may readily be separated from E. gallinacea by the 

 absence of a patch of spinelets on the inner side of the hind 

 coxa, and by the character of the head and genitalia (Plate III. 

 figs. 8,9). 



