Family Dolichopsyllidae Baker 35 



1914 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes C. Fox, United States Public Health 

 Ser. Hyg. Lab., Bull. 97, PI. XVI, fig. 28; PL XX, fig. 61. 



1925 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes C. Fox, United States Public Health 

 Ser., Rep. 40 (3): 1922. 



1928 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta. 

 Bull., Mem. 101, p. 869. 



1928 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Jordan, Nov. ZooL, 34: 186. 



1929 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Jordan, Nov. ZooL, 35:171. 



1930 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Jordan, Trans. IV Intern. Congress 

 Ent. (1928), p. 493, fig. 1. 



1933 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Stewart, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 

 41: 258. 



1933 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Jordan, Nov. Zool., 39:62. 



1934 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Shaftesbury, Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. 

 Soc., 49: 254. 



1937 Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes Jordan, Nov. ZooL, 40: 285. 



Male. Preantennal bristles of the head arranged in two rows, 

 the upper with five bristles, the lower with three much longer 

 ones. Three spines of the genal ctenidium obliquely directed 

 posteriorly; the first the shortest, the second somewhat wider 

 than the other two, and the third the longest and most acumin- 

 ate. Maxilla long, tapering to a long slender point. Numerous 

 small setae along the posterior margin of the antennal groove. 

 Postantennal bristles usually arranged in three irregular rows 

 of which the first consists of two bristles, the second of three, 

 and the third of five to seven (Plate X, fig. 45) . Pronotum 

 armed with a single row of alternating long bristles and weak 

 setae, and a ctenidium of six or seven spines on a side. Meso- 

 notum armed with three or four irregular rows of bristles. 

 Metanotum and each abdominal tergite armed with two or 

 three rows of bristles. Some of the abdominal tergites further 

 armed with a short stout dorsal tooth on a side. Modified seg- 

 ments: Process of the clasper bifurcate, the posterior lobe ex- 

 tending further dorsad than the anterior, and curved ante- 

 riorly, the posterior margin armed with a stout bristle; anterior 

 lobe armed distally with four or five stout bristles. Movable 

 finger long and broad, curved anteriorly, armed with four or 

 five short bristles on the posterior margin and a number of 

 short hairlike setae (Plate X, fig. 49) . Manubrium short and 

 broad, tapering to a curved point extending anteriorly as far as, 

 or further than, the penis. Penis slender, not tapering to a 

 long point; spring short, not completing a turn. 



Female. Chaetotaxy and general structure essentially as in 

 the male. Head of the receptaculum seminis much longer than 



