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one long and clearly defined, truncate, the lower one rounded 

 or acuminate distad. For further details concerning the struc- 

 ture of the female genitalia, see Plate XVI, fig. 83. 



Records. ALABAMA— Sand Mountains, April 15, 1914, on 

 "Neotoma floridana," male and female (A. H. Howell) . 

 GEORGIA— Okefinokee Swamp, November 13-15, 1935, on 

 Neotoma floridana floridana (Ord) , male and female (E. V. 

 Komarek) ; Blood Mountain, January 3, 1934, two males, two 

 females; Frogtown Gap, May 30, 1934, male and female (F. 

 Harper) ; Neel Gap, May 31, 1933, on "wood rat," female (A. H. 

 Howell). KENTUCKY— Mammoth Cave, August 6, 1929, on 

 "Neotoma species," male (L. Giovannoli). MARYLAND— 

 Plummer Island, September 26, 1921, on Neotoma pennsyl- 

 vanica Stone, male (A. Wetmore). NEW YORK — Schune- 

 munk Mountain, Orange County, July 10, 1925, on Neotoma 

 pennsylvanica Stone, male and female (F. Harper) . PENN- 

 SYLVANIA— Reading, October 24, 1938, on same host, male 

 and female; same locality and host, September 3, 1938, two 

 females (E. L. Poole). VIRGINIA— Shore opposite Plummer 

 Island, November 18, 1915, on "Neotoma species," male, three 

 females (R. C. Shannon) . 



Eastern host. Wood-rat (Neotoma pennsylvanica Stone, 

 etc.). 



Eastern localities. Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mary- 

 land, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia. 



Type material. Male and female from Boulder Creek, Cali- 

 fornia, on "Neotoma species" in the United States National 

 Museum. 



Jordan (1928) has separated this species into a number 

 of subspecies of which his O. sexdentatus pennsylvanicus is the 

 only one that occurs in the East. This subspecies was based on 

 numerous specimens from Neotoma pennsylvanica Stone at 

 Rolling Rock Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania, which are now in 

 the N. C. Rothschild Collection (British Museum). 



Orchopeas leucopus (Baker) 



(Plate XV, figs. 74, 78) 



1904 Ceratophyllus leucojms Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 27:387. 



1905 Ceratophyllus leucopus Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 29: 133. 

 1905 Ceratophyllus aeger Rothschild, Nov. Zool., 12: 166, PL 6, figs. 5, 7, 9. 

 1914 Ceratophyllus leucopus C. Fox, United States Public Health Ser. Hyg. 



Lab., Bull. 97, PI. XVIII, fig. 45. 

 1928 Ceratophyllus leucopus Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta., Mem. 

 101, p. 869. 



