26 Fleas of Eastern United States 



herst, October, 1931, in "house," male, four females (A. J. 

 Bourne) ; Springfield, July 24, 1903, two females (G. D. Dim- 

 mock) ; Framingham, October 1, 1934, on "man," female (C. A. 

 Frost). MARYLAND— Cumberland, two females; Beltsville, 

 August 9, 1937, on "cat," male and female (Billings). MIS- 

 SOURI— Carson City, August, 1936, on "cat" (E. Sanders). 

 NEW JERSEY — Moorestown, no host given, female (J. L. 

 King) . NEW YORK— Caroline, July 18, 1934, on "man," male 

 (A. Stone) ; Ithaca, December 14, 1910, on "cat," two females 

 (H. E. Ewing) . OHIO— Brunswick, May 27, 1929, on "cat and 

 man," male and female; Akron, September 18, 1936, in "lumber 

 yard," two males, two females (H. Graves) . PENNSYLVANIA 

 — Hazelton, July 1, 1937, on "man," two females (R. Morgan) . 

 RHODE ISLAND— Kingston, April, 1928, "from among pupal 

 cases and cast off larval skins of gypsy moth," two females 

 (A. E. Steene) . SOUTH CAROLINA— Anderson, December, 

 1939, on "fox," two females (R. B. Casey) . VIRGINIA— Hol- 

 lins, on "cat," numerous specimens; Waverly, August 9, 1931, 

 on same host, male, two females (E. B. Marshall) . 



Eastern hosts. "Cat," "Dog," "Rabbit," "Man," "Rats," 

 "Raccoon," "Opossum," "Flying Squirrel," Red Squirrel 

 ("Sciurus hudsonicus") , Skunk ("Spilogale ambarvalis") . 



Eastern localities. Generally distributed throughout the 

 inhabited areas of the East. 



Type material. From "housecat"; type locality not given. 

 Location of type not ascertained. 



Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis) 



(Plate VI, figs. 24, 26, 27) 



1826 Pulex canis Curtis, British Entomology, Vol. Ill, No. 114, figs. A-E, 8. 



1895 Pulex serraticeps Baker, Can. Ent., 27:164. 



1896 Pulex serraticeps Osborn, United States Dept. Agric. Div. Ent., 

 Bull. V (n.s.),p. 150, fig. 83. 



1901 Pulex canis Rothschild, Ent. Rec, 13: 126, PI. Ill, figs. B-C. 



1904 Ctenocephalus canis Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 27:384. 



1905 Pulex canis Rothschild, Nov. Zool., 12: 192, fig. A. 



1905 Ctenocephalus canis Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 29: 131. 

 1910 Ctenocephalus canis C. Fox, United States Public Health and Mar. 



Hosp. Ser., Bull. 30, p. 143, PI. VI, figs. 1-4. 

 1925 Ctenocephalus canis C. Fox, United States Public Health Ser., Rep. 



40: 1917. 

 1925 Ctenocephalus canis C. Fox, Insects and Disease of Man, p. 135, fig. 63. 



1928 Ctenocephalus canis Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta., Mem. 

 101, p. 868. 



1929 Ctenocephalus canis Ewing, Manual External Parasites, p. 165. 

 1929 Ctenocephalus canis Jordan, Nov. Zool., 35:176. 



