42 PlEOCEEDEN^GS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. los 



Hoplopleura oryzomydis Pratt and Lane, Journ. Parasit., vol. 37, No. 2, p. 

 141, pi. 1, figs. 1-3. 



Type data: USNM 60412. Holotype female and allotype male 

 from Oryzomys palustris palustris (Harlan) No. 78, Oatland Island, 

 Chatham County, Ga., Feb. 26, 1948. Both the holotype and allotype 

 are in the collection. 



Present status: As originally described. 



Genus Lemurphthirus Bedford 



Lemurphthirus verruculosus Ward, Ent. News, vol. 62, No. 6, p. 190, figs. 1, 

 2, 1951. 



Type data: USNM 64237. Holotype female from a mouse lemur 

 (formalin specimen), Bemangidy, Fort-Dauphin district, Tulear 

 Province, Madagascar, 1948, H. Hoogstraal and R. Alison. 



Present status: As originally described. 



Genus Neohaematopinus IVIjoberg 



Haematopinus antennatus Osborn, U. S. Dcp. Agr. Div. Ent. Bull, (old series) 

 7, p. 25, fig. 13, 1891. 



Type data: Collected from a fox squirrel, Sciurus cinereus var, 

 ludovicianus [Sciurus niger subsp.j, at Ames, Iowa. 



There is in the collection a slide bearing labels as follows: Left: 

 USNM type label, in Ewing's handwriting, "Neohaematopinus an- 

 tennatus (Osborn), remounted on original slide Nov. 22, '20 by 

 H. E. E., Type No. 24136 U.S.N.M." Right Label: In Osborn's 

 handwriting, "H. [sphaerocephalus (crossed out)] antennatus n. sp., 

 on Fox Squirrel, 5/1/82, S. K. Chauri 10/5/[?]." There are three 

 female syntypes in a row on this slide. I select as lectotype the best 

 preserved female, in the middle of the row, and have circled it with a 

 diamond point pencil. 



Present status: A junior homonym of Haematopinus antennatus 

 Piaget, 1880. Earliest available name: Acanthopinus sciurinus 

 Mjoberg, 1910, now known as Neohaematopinus sciurinus (Mjoberg), 

 1910. 



Haematopinus columbianus Osborn, Canad. Ent. vol. 32, No. 7, p. 215, 1900. 



Type data: Described "from a number of specunens taken from the 

 Columbian Spermophile, Spermophilus columbianus [Citellus colum- 

 bianus subsp.j, at Pullman, Washington, by Prof. C. V. Piper in 

 July, 1896. Type material in USNM." 



In the collection are two slides which must be considered in lecto- 

 type selection. The first has on the left, in Ewing's handwriting, 

 on a USNM type label: "=Linognathoides laoviuscidus (Grube)" 

 and on the right: "[8526, Linognathoides montanus (Osb.) (in Ewing's 

 handwTiting)], Haematopinus columbianus Osb., type material. 



