46 Fleas of Eastern United States 



September, 1937, on ''Mephitis sp.," four males, five females (T. 

 Scott) ; Mt. Pleasant, December 25, 1937, on "badger," female, 

 two males (H. E. Jacques). MASSACHUSETTS— Abington, 

 April 12, 1924, on "woodchuck," male (T. D. Smith) ; Charles 

 River Village, June 13, 1928, on Marmota monax preblorum 

 Howell, female (F. Harper); Holbrook, May 13, 1924, on 

 "woodchuck," male and female; Needham, March 26, 1927, on 

 same host, male and female (T. D. Smith) ; Newton Center, 

 September 20, 1926, on "Arctomys monax," male and female 

 (F. Harper). MINNESOTA— Cloquet, September 4, 1936, on 

 "Marmota monax/' female; Thief Lake, March 29, 1937, on 

 "woodchuck," six females, three males (K. Krumm) . NEW 

 HAMPSHIRE— Concord, May 15, 1926, on "red fox," female 

 (F. B. White) . NEW JERSEY— Vincentown, June 4, 1934, in 

 "skunk nest," two males, two females (R. J. Sim) . NEW 

 YORK— Keesville, May 29, 1918, on "Marmota monax," male 

 and female (N. Dearborn) ; North Elba, July 17, 1926, on same 

 host, female (F. Harper) . 



Eastern hosts. Woodchuck (Marmota monax preblorum 

 Howell, etc.), Red Squirrel (Sciurus hudsonicus loquax 

 Bangs) , "Opossum," Skunk (Mephitis nigra (Peale and Beau- 

 vois)), White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus borealis 

 Miller), Gray Fox ("Urocyon cineroargenteus") , "Red Fox," 

 Barred Owl (" Symium nebulosum") . 



Eastern localities. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New 

 Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. 



Type material. Male and female from "Arctomys monax" at 

 Peterboro, New York, in the United States National Museum. 



ODONTOPSYLLUS BAKER 

 Odontopsyllus Baker, 1905, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 29:129. 



Genotype: Pulex midtispinosus Baker 



Frontal tubercle prominent, acuminate. Eye large, pigmented 

 heavily at the margins. Labial palpus reaching almost to the 

 apex of the fore coxa. Pronotal ctenidium consisting of fourteen 

 to nineteen long spines on a side. Females with three ante- 

 pygidial bristles present on a side of which the lowermost is 

 well separated from the other two. Anterior margin of the hind 

 coxa armed with numerous small bristles. Other details es- 

 sentially as in Ceratophyllus Curtis. 



This genus is represented in the East by a single species 

 which parasitizes rabbits in particular. 



