92 Fleas of Eastern United States 



Records. IOWA — Baxter, April, 1923, no host given, female 

 (J. W. Preston) . MASSACHUSETTS— Ashburnham, October 

 12, 1927, on Blarina brevicauda talpoides (Gapper) , female (F. 

 Harper). NEW HAMPSHIRE — Carroll County, October 4, 

 1926, on same host, female (F. Harper). MINNESOTA— No 

 further data, September 28, 1933, on "Blarina brevicauda," 

 male. 



Eastern hosts. Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda 

 talpoides (Gapper) ) , Pocket Gopher (Geomys bursarius 

 (Shaw) ) , "Moles." 



Eastern localities. Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New 

 Hampshire, Minnesota. 



Type material. Male holotype from Agricultural College, 

 Michigan, on Geomys bursarius (Shaw) according to the litera- 

 ture on "Scalops" according to the slide, in the United States 

 National Museum. 



DORATOPSYLLA JORDAN AND ROTHSCHILD 

 Doratopsylla Jordan and Rothschild, 1912, Nov. Zool., 13:62. 



Genotype: Typhlopsylla dasycnemus Rothschild 



Frontal tubercle absent. Eye vestigial. Genal ctenidium 

 consisting of four spines. Labial palpus composed of four 

 segments. Frons rounded, armed with two rows of conspicuous 

 bristles. Fifth tarsal segment of all tarsi armed with four pairs 

 of lateral plantar bristles and a basal median pair. Three ante- 

 pygidial bristles usually present on a side. 



This genus is represented in the East by two shrew fleas 

 which may be separated by the following key: 



Key to the Eastern Species of Doratopsylla 



Last genal spine more or less horizontal, closely appressed to the genal 

 border D. blarinae 



Last genal spine oblique, forming an angle with the genal border 



D. curvata 



Doratopsylla blarinae C. Fox 

 (Plate XXVI, figs. 134, 135, 137) 



1914 Doratopsylla blarinae C. Fox, United States Public Health Ser. Hyg. 

 Lab., Bull. 97:11, PI. IV, figs. 1-3. 



1915 Doratopsylla blarinae Rothschild, Ectoparasites, 1:28. 



1919 Doratopsylla blarinae Chapin, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, 14:54. 

 1925 Doratopsylla blarinae Ewing, Jour. Parasitology, 12:43. 

 1928 Doratopsylla blarinae Jordan, Nov. Zool., 34:186. 



