34 Fleas oj Eastern United States 



cerning the structure of the female genitalia, see Plate VIII, 

 fig. 38. 



Records. IOWA — Clayton County, March 27, 1939, on 

 Procyon lotor lotor (Linnaeus) , male (B. B. Morgan) . MAINE 

 — Lucerne-in-Maine, November 1, 1928, on same host, female 

 (F. Harper). NORTH CAROLINA— Pisgah National Forest, 

 March 2, 1936, on "raccoon," female (J. H. Stone) . 



Eastern host. Raccoon (Procyon lotor lotor (Linnaeus) ) . 



Eastern localities. Iowa, Maine, New York, North Carolina. 



Type material. Male and female from Olcott, New York, on 

 Procyon lotor lotor (Linnaeus) in the Cornell University 

 Collection. 



CTENOPHTHALMUS KOLENATI 

 Ctenophthalmus Kolenati, 1856, Die Parasiten der Chiropteren, p. 33. 



Genotype: Ctenophthalmus bisoctodentatus Kolenati 



Frontal tubercle prominent, acuminate, projecting far beyond 

 the anterior border of the head. Eyes vestigial. Genal ctenidium 

 consisting of three spines. Labial palpus not extending beyond 

 the apex of the fore coxa; the distal segment armed with a 

 curved apical bristle. Fifth tarsal segment of the fore and 

 middle legs armed with four pairs of lateral plantar bristles and 

 a basal and a distal submedian pair. Fifth tarsal segment of the 

 hind legs armed with three pairs of lateral plantar bristles and 

 a basal and a distal submedian pair. Three antepygidial bristles 

 present on a side, the middle the longest and the lowermost 

 much longer than the uppermost. 



This genus is represented in the East by a single species 

 which is exceedingly common on various small mammals. 



Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Baker 



(Plate X, figs. 45, 46, 49) 



1904 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 

 27:421, PI. XI, figs. 7-12. 



1895 Typhlopsylla assimilis Baker, Can. Ent., 27:190 (not T. assimilis 

 Taschenberg). 



1896 Typhlopsylla assimilis Osborn, United States Dept. Agric. Div. Ent., 

 Bull. 5, p. 153, fig. 85 (not T. assimilis Taschenberg) . 



1898 Typhlopsylla assimilis Baker, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 6:55 (not 

 T. assimilis Taschenberg) 



1904 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Rothschild, Nov. Zool., 11:641, PI. XIV, 

 figs. 73, 78; PI. XV, fig. 81. 



1905 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 

 29: 135. 



