TYPE SPECIMENS OF LICE IN USNM — ^JOHNSON 47 



Eremophthirius eropepli Ewing, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 48, p. 209, 

 fig. B, 1935. 



Type data: USNM 44906. Two male and two female cotypes 

 from Eropeplus canus (USNM 219711), Celebes. 



The four syntype specimens are mounted in a horizontal line on a 

 single slide, and the label bears the data given above. All the speci- 

 mens are in poor condition; however, one of the two males has most 

 of the leg segments and the majority of the paratergal plate setae are 

 still present. I select as lectotype this male (second from the right 

 on the slide) and have cucled it with a diamond point pencil. The 

 third antennal segment of the lectotype was figured by Ewing (fig. 

 b). Ferris (Mem. Pacific Coast Ent. Soc. vol. 1, p. 207, 1951) pre- 

 sumed the host to be Eriopeplus incanus, which he states is now known 

 as Cricetulus longicaudatus, and ememded the species name of eropepli 

 to eriopepli. However, Ewing's description properly lists the host 

 (USNM 219711) as Eropeplus canus. 



Present status: Polyplax eropepli (Ewing), 1935. This species 

 would key to couplet 19 of Ferris' (Mem. Pacific Coast Ent. Soc, 

 vol. 1, p. 204, 1951) key to Polyplax species. A redescription and 

 figures of eropepli will be published elsewhere. 



Polyplax tarsomydis Ewing, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 48, p. 206, fig. d, 

 1935. 



Type data: USNM 44904. Holotype male from Tarsomys apoeU' 

 sis, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



Present status: As originally described. 



G^nus Proenderleinellus Ewing 



Proenderleinellus africanus Ewing, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 13, No. 

 8, p. 148, 1923. 



Type data: USNM 23760. Holotype male from Thryonomys 

 gregor pitsillus [Thryonomys gregorianus pusillus] (USNM 184180), 

 taken at Maji-ya-Chumvi, British East Africa. 



Present status: A junior synonym of Proenderleinellus calvus 

 (Waterston), 1917. 



Genus Prolinognathus Ewing 



Prolinognathus ferrisi Fahrenholz, Ztschr. Parasitenk., vol. 11, No. 1, p. 12, 



1939. 

 Prolinognathus leptocephalus (Ehrenberg), Ferris, Stanford Univ. Publ. Biol. 

 Sci., vol. 2, No. 5, p. 142, figs. 250b, 251c {err. del.), 1932. 



Type data: USNM 184247. Holotype female from Procavia hrucei 

 rudolfi [Heterohyrax syriacus rudolji], British East Africa. 



Fahrenholz used Ferris' (1932) figures and description of ''lepto- 

 cephalus" as a basis for his name ferrisi, and did not see the specimens. 



