Family Dolicliopsyllidae Baker 41 



host, two males, three females (E. F. Knipling) . MINNESOTA 

 — St. Paul, on "pocket gopher," two males. 



Eastern hosts. Pocket Gopher (Geomys bursarius 

 (Shaw) ) , White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus nove- 

 boracensis (Fischer) ) , Mole (Scalopus aquaticus machrinus 

 (Raflnesque) ) . 



Eastern localities. Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota. 



Type material. Female holotype from Ames, Iowa; male 

 and female from Fort Collins, Colorado, (as Typhlopsylla 

 americana) , and a male from Ames, Iowa, (as Typhlopsylla 

 americana) , in the United States National Museum. 



CONORHINOPSYLLA STEWART 

 Conorhinopsylla Stewart, 1930, Can. Ent., 62: 178, PI. 15, figs. 3-5. 

 Genotype: Conorhinopsylla stanfordi Stewart 



Frontal notch absent. Eye rudimentary. Frontogenal angle 

 of the head extended to form a protuberance. Maxilla broad, 

 triangular, not ending in a long point. Pronotal ctenidium 

 consisting of about six unusually broad and heavily pigmented 

 spines on a side. Segments I and II of the hind tarsus of the 

 male with long hairlike bristles. Fifth tarsal segment of each 

 leg with four pairs of lateral plantar bristles and a basal sub- 

 median pair. 



This genus is represented in the East by a single species 

 which is parasitic on squirrels. It has also been found in the 

 West. 



Conorhinopsylla stanfordi Stewart 

 (Plate XXVIII, figs. 148, 149, 150) 



1930 Conorhinopsylla stanfordi Stewart, Can. Ent., 62: 178, PI. 15, figs. 3-5. 

 1933 Conorhinopsylla stanfordi Stewart, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 41:257. 

 1937 Conorhinopsylla stanfordi Jordan, Nov. Zool., 40:267, figs. 51-53. 



Female. Bristles of the preantennal region of the head ar- 

 ranged in two rows; the lower row consisting of two to four 

 bristles of various lengths of which the third is the longest; 

 upper row indefinite consisting of about four small bristles. 

 Labial palpus six-segmented, extending beyond the trochanters. 

 A number of small setae along the posterior margin of the an- 

 tennal groove. Postantennal region of the head with a slender 

 bristle near the first antennal joint, a much stouter one near 

 the base of the third antennal segment and a marginal row of 

 four or five bristles of which the most ventral is the longest 



