NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN SIPHONAPTERA — RAINBOW. 



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Abdomen.- — Similar in vestiture to 

 female. In the modified segments the 

 clasper is produced into i-ather a long 

 process, bearing one long bristle, and a 

 few short hairs scattered over tlie sides. 

 The finger is scythe-shaped, moder- 

 ately long, pointed at apex, and 

 fui'nished with a few moderately stiff 

 bristles and short fine hairs. Sternite 

 9 broad, not divided ventrally, and 

 having the apex densely clothed with 

 long fine hairs, and long stout bristles. 

 Spiral of penis consists of two coils 

 (fig. 29). 



Ley)<. — -Similar to female. 



Hah. — New South Wales. liHoat, DasyurusmaculatuSjlS^erv. I 

 have also collected this species from the body of a tiger, Felis 

 tigria, Linn., which died in the Zoological Gardens, Sydney. 



Fig. 29. 

 Ceratophyllus rothschili 



Family CTENOPSYLLID^. 



Getms Stephanocircus, Sknse. 



It is interesting to note that although up to 1903, three 

 additional species of Stephanocircus had been described by the 

 Hon. N. C. Rothschild, all, including Skuse's species, were only 

 known to us by female examples. Rothschild has, however, 

 further extended our knowledge of the species constituting the 

 genus, and has during the present year described not only the 

 male of S. dasyuri, Skuse, but also the male and female of *S'. 

 fiimsoni, Roths." 



All Rothschild's material was obtained from Launceston, 

 Tasmania, the hosts being for .S'. dasyuri : Mus vehUiuus, Thomas, 

 a Tasmanian Native Rat ; Peremeles (junni. Gray, Striped 

 Bandicoot ; and Dasyuras tnacidatus, Kerr, Tiger Cat. S. 

 siinsoni was obtained from M. velutinus and D. maculatun. 



We thus now know of five species of this interesting genus, 

 namely : — 



/S'. dasyuri, Skuse — Rec. Austr. Mus., ii., 1893, p. 78, pL 

 xvii., figs. 2, 2a, 26, 2c, 2d, 2e. 



,, Baker — Canadian Entomologist, xxvii., 1896, 



p. 63. 



« Rothschild— Ent. Monthly Mag., xvi., 1905, pp. 61-62, pi. i. 



