96 Fleas of Eastern United States 



from various small mammals. Unfortunately, E. faceta and E. 

 testor are very rare; in fact, only the female of the latter species 

 has been described, while the former species is known from 

 but one pair. The males of E. faceta and E. wenmanni may be 

 separated by the following key: 



Movable finger longer than the distance from its base to the tip of the 

 lower lobe of the clasper E. wenmanni 



Movable finger not longer than the distance from its base to the tip of the 

 lower lobe of the clasper E. faceta 



Epitedia wenmanni (Rothschild) 



(Plate I; Plate XXVII, figs. 139, 142, 144) 



1904 Ctenophthalmus wenmanni Rothschild, Nov. Zool., 11:642, PI. XIV, 



figs. 75, 76, 77. 

 1919 Neopsylla similis Chapin, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, 14: 50. 

 1919 Neopsylla wenmanni Chapin, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 14: 50. 

 1926 Ctenophthalmus wenmanni Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta., 



Mem. 101, p. 869. 

 1929 Neopsylla wenmanni Jordan, Nov. Zool., 35:172. 

 1933 Neopsylla wenmanni Jordan, Nov. Zool., 39: 62. 



1937 Neopsylla wenmanni Jordan, Nov. Zool., 40: 285. 



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



Male. Frontal tubercle roughly triangular, not extending 

 beyond the margin of the head. Preantennal region of the 

 head with two rows of bristles; upper row with five bristles, 

 lower row with four, of which three are very long. Genal 

 ctenidium consisting of two spines, of which one is slightly 

 more than one-half as long as the other which is much more 

 slender. Genal process long but not heavily pigmented. Labial 

 palpus slightly more than one-half as long as the anterior coxa. 

 Second antennal segment with seven or eight short bristles. A 

 series of eight or nine short setae present along the posterior 

 edge of the antennal groove. Postantennal bristles arranged in 

 three rows each consisting of five or six bristles. Pronotum 

 armed with a row of bristles of various sizes and a ctenidium of 

 six or seven spines on a side. Meso- and metanotum each with 

 three or four rows of irregularly arranged bristles. Each ab- 

 dominal tergite with two rows of bristles, the posterior row 

 consisting of alternating long bristles and short setae. In addi- 

 tion, some of the abdominal tergites armed with one tooth on a 

 side. Three antepygidial bristles present on a side. Modified 

 segments: Process of the clasper bilobed, the upper lobe longer 

 than the lower lobe. Both the upper and lower lobe with a long 

 bristle distally and a number of shorter bristles. Movable finger 



