98 Fleas of Eastern United States 



County, October 4, 1926, on "Evotomys gapperi," male (F. 

 Harper). NEW YORK — Elma, Erie County, December 16, 

 1925, on "Mustela cicognanii," female (A. Hardy) . TENNES- 

 SEE — Greenbriar, April 18, 1931, on Blarina brevicauda tal- 

 poides (Gapper), female, two males (R. L. Boke). VIRGINIA 

 — Great Falls, February 17, 1907, in nest of "Peromyscus leuco- 

 pus," numerous specimens (D. H. demons) ; East Falls Church, 

 January 7, 1927, on Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis 

 (Fischer) , two males (E. A. Chapin) . 



Eastern hosts. Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda 

 talpoides (Gapper) ) , Wood-rat (Neotoma floridana (Ord) , 

 etc.), "Field-mouse," White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leu- 

 copus noveboracensis (Fischer) , etc.) , "Thirteen-striped 

 Ground Squirrel," Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans volans 

 (Linnaeus) ) , Red-backed Mouse ("Evotomys gapperi") , 

 Meadow-mouse (Microtus breweri (Baird) ) , Weasel ("Mus- 

 tela cicognanii," etc.), Hairy-tailed Mole (Parascalops breweri 

 (Bachman) ) , House-rat (Rattus norvegicus (Erxleben) ) . 



Eastern localities. District of Columbia, Georgia, Iowa, 

 Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New 

 Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, 

 (New Brunswick) . 



Type material. One male from British Columbia on "Pero- 

 myscus leucopus," and one female from the same locality on 

 "Neotoma cinerea" in the N. C. Rothschild Collection (British 

 Museum) . 



This species seems to be pre-eminently a flea of the white- 

 footed mouse, but is abundant on many other small mammals. 

 It occurs as an adult in some part of our territory during every 

 season of the year; indeed the above records show that it has 

 been found in this stage during practically every month. Its 

 hardihood is attested by the fact that it has been taken in great 

 numbers from white-footed mice in the midst of a rigorous 

 Iowa winter and that it is known from as far north as New 

 Brunswick. 



Epitedia faceta (Rothschild) 



(Plate XXVII, figs. 141, 143) 



1915 Neopsylla faceta Rothschild, Ectoparasites, 1:32. 

 1929 Neopsylla faceta Jordan, Nov. Zool., 35: 176. 

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



No specimen of this species or of E. testor has been available 

 for study. The following descriptions are based on Rothschild's 



