Family Hystricho-psyllidae Tiraboschi 99 



original descriptions and the accompanying figures are redrawn 

 from his illustrations. 



Male. Chaetotaxy of the head as in E. wenmanni except that 

 the middle row of the postantennal region consists of but two 

 or three bristles. Labial palpus reaching almost to the apex of 

 the fore coxa. Other details of general structure essentially as 

 in E. wenmanni. Modified segments: Process of the clasper bi- 

 lobed, each lobe with numerous bristles. Movable finger with 

 the posterior margin obtusely angulate in the middle and with 

 two stout curved bristles at this place; posterior margin further 

 armed with numerous slender setae. Posterior arm of sternite 

 IX with a row of four spiniforms at the apex near which are 

 three smaller spiniforms and some setae. For further details 

 concerning the structure of the male genitalia, see Plate XXVII, 

 fig. 141. 



Female. General structure and chaetotaxy essentially as in 

 the male. Sternite VII with a wide but shallow sinus, the two 

 lobes of approximately the same size. Head of the receptaculum 

 seminis long and sausage-shaped, much longer than the tail. 

 For further details of the structure of the female genitalia, see 

 Plate XXVII, fig. 143. 



Eastern host. Red Squirrel ("Sciarus hudsonicus") . 



Eastern locality. Massachusetts. 



Type material. Male and female from Wilbraham, Massa- 

 chusetts, on "Sciurus hudsonicus" in the N. C. Rothschild 

 Collection (British Museum) . 



Epitedia testor (Rothschild) 

 (Plate XXVII, fig. 140) 



1915 Neopsylla testor Rothschild, Ectoparasites, 1:34, fig. 36. 



1926 Neopsylla testor Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta., Mem. 101, 



p. 869. 

 1929 Neopsylla testor Jordan, Nov. Zool., 35: 177. 

 1933 Neopsylla testor Stewart, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 41:261. 

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



Female. General structure and chaetotaxy essentially as in 

 E. faceta, the difference between the species being in the 

 structure of the genitalia. Sternite VII bearing on both sides 

 together six long and seven short bristles; divided into two 

 lobes by a shallow sinus, the upper lobe slightly narrower than 

 in faceta. For further details of the structure of the female 

 genitalia, see Plate XXVII, fig. 140. 



Male. Undescribed. 



