100 Fleas of Eastern United States 



Eastern host. "Nest (of mouse?)." 



Eastern locality. New York. 



Type material. Female holotype collected at Lansingburgh. 

 near Troy, New York, in the N. C. Rothschild Collection 

 (British Museum) . 



TAMIOPHILA JORDAN 

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



Genotype: Typhlopsylla grandis Rothschild 



Genal spines as in Epitedia Jordan. Eye vestigial. Pronotal 

 ctenidium consisting of about eleven spines on a side. Each 

 abdominal sternite armed with a row of six or seven bristles 

 anterior to which are numerous slender setae. Fifth tarsal 

 segment of the fore and middle legs armed with five pairs of 

 lateral plantar bristles, without a basal submedian pair. Fifth 

 tarsal segment of the hind legs armed with four pairs of lateral 

 plantar bristles, without a basal submedian pair. Size large, 

 four or five millimeters in length. 



This genus is represented in the East by a single giant species 

 which occurs on various rodents. 



Tamiophila grandis (Rothschild) 



(Plate XXV, figs. 127, 129, 131) 



1902 Typhlopsylla grandis Rothschild, Ent. Rec, 14: 62, PI. II, fig. 3. 



1895 Pulex gigas Baker, Can. Ent, 27:163 (not Pulex gigas Kirby). 



1896 Pulex gigas Osborn, United States Dept. Agric. Div. Ent., Bull. 5 (new 

 ser.) , p. 152 (not Pulex gigas Kirby) . 



1904 Ctenophthalmus gigas Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 27:421 

 (not Pulex gigas Kirby). 



1905 Ctenophthalmus gigas Baker, Proc. United States Nat. Mus., 29:135 

 (not Pulex gigas Kirby). 



1926 Neopsylla striata Stewart, Insec. Insc. Menst., 14:124. 

 1928 Ctenophthalmus gigas Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta., Mem. 

 101, p. 869 (not Pulex gigas Kirby). 



1928 Neopsylla striata Stewart, Cornell Univ. Agric. Exp. Sta., Mem. 101, 

 p. 869. 



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



1933 Neopsylla grandis Stewart, Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 41:260. 



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



1938 Tamiophila grandis Jordan, Nov. Zool., 41:124. 



Female. Frontal tubercle minute. Preantennal region of the 

 head with two oblique rows of bristles; the upper row consisting 

 of seven or eight, the lower of three much more robust ones. 



