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cauda," female. NEW HAMPSHIRE— Concord, June 14, 1927, 

 on Parascalops breweri (Bachman) , male (F. B. White) . NEW 

 YORK — Ithaca, April 6, 1936, on Microtus pennsylvanicus 

 pennsylvanicus (Ord), male (W. J. Hamilton); Adirondack 

 Lodge, Essex County, July 31, 1925, on Tamias striatus lysteri 

 (Richardson) , female (F. Harper) ; Long Lake, July 25, 1926, 

 on "Sciurus hudsonicus" male (R. T. Hatt) . NORTH CARO- 

 LINA— Oconalufty, April 18, 1931, on "Microtus montanus," 

 three females (R. L. Boke) . OHIO— Fairfield County, April 2, 

 1935, on Blarina brevicauda talpoides (Gapper) , female (R. 

 Goslin) . VIRGINIA — Fall's Church, on "Scalopus aquaticus," 

 two males; East Fall's Church, August 20, 1919, "runway of 

 field mouse," male (H. E. Ewing) ; Prospect Hill, in "field mouse 

 nest," two females (W. M. Mann) ; Petersburg, April 6, 1933, on 

 "Albemarle meadow mouse," two males, two females (H. S. 

 Peters) ; Winchester, October, 1922, on "skin of Microtus penn- 

 sylvanicus," female (E. A. Chapin) . 



Eastern hosts. Hairy-tailed Mole (Parascalops breweri 

 (Bachman) ) , Mole (Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus (Linnaeus) , 

 etc.), Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda talpoides (Gap- 

 per), etc.), Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata (Linnaeus)). 

 Musk-rat (Ondatra zibethica zibethica (Linnaeus) ) , White- 

 footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis (Fischer) , 

 etc.), Meadow-mouse (Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus 

 (Ord) ) , Pine-mouse ("Pitymys pinetorum") , House-mouse 

 ("Mus musculus") , Red-backed Mouse ("Evotomys gapperi") , 

 Wood-rat (Neotoma pennsylvanicus Stone) , Red Squirrel 

 ("Sciurus hudsonicus") , Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans 

 volans (Linnaeus) ) , House-rat (Rattus norvegicus (Erxle- 

 ben) ) , Chipmunk (Tamias striatus lysteri (Richardson) ) , 

 Pocket Gopher (Geomys bursarius (Shaw) ) , "Cottontail Rab- 

 bit," Thirteen-striped Ground Squirrel ("Citellus tridecem- 

 lineatus") , Skunk ("Mustela frenata") , Screech Owl ("Mega- 

 scops asio") . 



Eastern localities. Alabama, District of Columbia, Georgia, 

 Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, 

 New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Virginia. 



Type material. Female from Agricultural College, Michigan, 

 on "mole" (according to the slide), and a female from Ames, 

 Iowa, on "Scalops argentatus" in the United States National 

 Museum. 



This species is one of the most abundant cf the flea parasites 



