Family Dolichopsyllidae Baker 33 



about eight bristles. Meso- and metanotum each with two 

 irregular rows of bristles. Metepimeron armed on its posterior 

 margin with about six long bristles anterior to which is an 

 irregular row of five or six shorter ones (Plate VIII, fig. 36) . 

 Each abdominal tergite with two rows of bristles, the posterior 

 made up of long bristles reaching to the middle of the next seg- 

 ment. Modified segments: Clasper broad and flat, the margins 

 with numerous long bristles. Process of the clasper not dis- 

 tinctly separated from the body proper. Movable finger long 

 and curved. Manubrium finger-like, ending bluntly. Penis 

 blunt terminally; spring not completing a turn. For further 

 details of the male genitalia, see Plate VIII, fig. 39. 



Female. Chaetotaxy of the head (Plate VIII, fig. 34) and 

 general structure essentially as in the male except that the 

 pubescence on the head and thorax is absent. Tail of the 

 receptaculum seminis longer than the head which is oval and 

 longer than wide. Genitalia essentially as in T. lotoris Stewart 

 (Plate VIII, fig. 38) . 



Eastern host. Unknown. 



Eastern locality. Florida. 



Type material. Two males and two females from "garden 

 truck leaf mold" at Gainesville, Florida, in the United States 

 National Museum. 



Trichopsyjla lotoris Stewart 

 (Plate VIII, figs. 35, 37, 38; Plate IX, fig. 42) 



1926 Trichopsylla lotoris Stewart, Insec. Insc. Menst., 14: 122, 1 textfig. 



1928 Trichopsylla lotoris Stewart, Cornell Univ. Ag. Exp. Sta., Mem. 101, 

 p. 869. 



1929 Trichopsylla lotoris Jordan, Nov. Zool., 35: 176. 



1933 Trichopsylla lotoris Stewart, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 41:258. 



Male. Chaetotaxy of the head differing from that of T. 

 floridensis in several noteworthy respects. Upper of the two 

 preantennal rows of bristles consisting of three bristles rather 

 than six, the middle of the three postantennal rows with three 

 bristles rather than five. Metepimeron without a row of five or 

 six bristles anterior to the marginal row (Plate VIII, fig. 37) . 

 Modified segments: Clasper narrower than in T. floridensis 

 and very different in general shape. Manubrium much nar- 

 rower, tapering to a blunt point. For further details concerning 

 the structure of the male genitalia, see Plate IX, fig. 42. 



Female. General structure and chaetotaxy of the head 

 essentially as in the male (Plate VIII, fig. 35) . For details con- 



