Family Hystricliopsyllidae Tiraboschi 95 



clasper divided into two conspicuous processes of about the 

 same length, between which is a small lobe. Anterior process 

 slender and with two long, stout bristles distally. Posterior 

 process much wider and more or less triangular in shape, 

 armed with two small bristles distally. Movable finger slightly 

 wider basally than distally, strongly curved; the posterior mar- 

 gin with several slender bristles (Plate XXVI, fig. 138) . 

 Manubrium triangular, tapering to a point. Penis broad and 

 heavy, blunt terminally; spring very short, extending only 

 slightly beyond the penis. 



Female. Chaetotaxy of the head (Plate XXVI, fig. 133) and 

 general structure essentially as in the male. Ventral portion of 

 sternite VII divided by a deep sinus into two lobes, of which the 

 upper is acuminate while the lower ends bluntly. Tail of the 

 receptaculum seminis longer than in D. Blarinae; about one- 

 half as long as the ovate head. For further details concerning 

 the structure of the female genitalia, see Plate XXVI, fig. 136. 



Records. IOWA — Ames, July 4, 1936, "in short-tailed shrew 

 nest," six females, three males (R. L. Roudabush) ; Ruthven, 

 June-July, 1938, on "shrew," numerous specimens (E. R. 

 Becker and P. C. Waters). MINNESOTA— Saint Paul, No- 

 vember 10, 1919, "in soil," male (H. E. Ewing) . (MONTANA— 

 Ravalli County, October 20, 1935, "in shrew nest," male and 

 female (W. L. Jellison) .) 



Eastern host. Short-tailed Shrew ("Blarina brevicauda") . 



Eastern localities. Iowa, Minnesota, New York, (Montana) . 



Type material. Male and female from Iowa City, Iowa, 

 on "Blarina brevicauda" in the N. C. Rothschild Collection 

 (British Museum) . 



EPITEDIA JORDAN 

 Epitedia Jordan, 1938, Nov. Zool., 41:124. 



Genotype: Ctenopthalmus wenmanni Rothschild 



Both a genal and a pronotal ctenidium present. Frontal notch 

 prominent. Frons with two rows of bristles. Eye vestigial. 

 Genal ctenidium consisting of two unequal spines, one over- 

 lapping the other. Fifth tarsal segment of the fore and middle 

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

 median pair; fifth tarsal segment of the hind legs with four 

 pairs of lateral plantar bristles and without a basal submedian 

 pair. 



This genus is represented in the East by three species known 



