"108 Fleas oj Eastern United States 



apically. Sternite IX elbowed, the posterior process long and 

 lobular. Penis broad and bladelike, its spring long. For further 

 details concerning the structure of the male genitalia, see 

 Plate XXX, fig. 157. 



Female. Frons with a series of four to six thickened, almost 

 spinifrom bristles along the dorsal margin to the antennal 

 groove. A longer bristle located below this series, and two more 

 situated near the dorsal margin above the genal spines (Plate 

 XXX, fig. 159) . Sternite VII rounded, without a deep sinus. 

 Head of the receptaculum seminis more or less oval in outline, 

 about three-fourths as wide as long. For further details con- 

 cerning the structure of the female genitalia, see Plate XXX, 

 figs. 158, 161. 



Records. KENTUCKY— Colossal Cave, November 17, 1929, 

 on "Myotis sodalis" male, five females (V. Bailey) . MARY- 

 LAND— Glen Echo, March 31, 1916, on "Eptesicus juscus," 

 male and female (R. C. Shannon) . 



Eastern hosts. Big Brown Bat ("Eptesicus fuscus") , Little 

 Brown Bat ("Myotis sodalis") . 



Eastern localities. Maryland, Kentucky. 



Type material. Male and female from Glen Echo, Maryland, 

 on Eptesicus juscus (Beauvois) in the United States National 

 Museum. 



STERNOPSYLLA JORDAN AND ROTHSCHILD 



Stemopsylla Jordan and Rothschild, 1921, Ectoparasites, 1:158. 



Genotype: Ischnopsyllus texanus C. Fox 



Maxilla acuminate. Remains of the eye large and oval. 

 Ocular bristle large and conspicuous. Pronotum with a true 

 ctenidium consisting of long, slender spines. Meso- and meta- 

 sternum each with a bristle anteriorly above the ventral angle. 

 One long antepygidial bristle situated on a conical protuberance 

 on each side. First segment of the middle and hind tarsus with 

 numerous hairlike setae, particularly in the male. 



This genus is represented in the East by a single species 

 which occurs in the southern part of the United States. 



Stemopsylla texana (C. Fox) 



(Plate XXXI) 



1914 Ischnopsyllus texanus C. Fox, United States Public Health Ser. Hyg. 



Lab., Bull. 97: 16, PI. V, figs. 6-8. 

 1921 Sternopsylla texanus Jordan and Rothschild, Ectoparasites, 1:158. 



