TYPE SPECIMENS OF LICE IN U^STM — JOHNISON 41 



the lectotype selection. The specimen so designated on the slide is 

 the better of the two and is here selected as lectotype. 

 Present status: As originally described. 



Genus Haeniodipsus Enderlein 

 Haemodipsus setoni EM-ing, Amer. Journ. Trop. Med., vol. 4, No. 6, p. 548, 1924 



Type data: USNM 23768. One female from Lepus californicus 

 melanotis (USNM 123846) and two females and two nymphs from 

 another skin (USNM 123847) of the same host subspecies, collected 

 at Wichita, Kans., by Ernest Thompson Seton, and one male and one 

 nymph from Lepus c. californuus (USNM 60907) collected at summit 

 of Coast Range Mountains, San Diego County, Calif., by the Inter- 

 national Boundary Commission. 



All the syntype specimens listed above are in the collection under 

 USNM 23768. None of the specimens are very well preserved. 

 The single female from USNM 123846, although some of the legs are 

 missing, is best preserved and is designated lectotype. 



Present status: As originally described. 



Genus Hoplopleura Enderlein 



Hoplopleura erismata Ferris, Stanford Univ. Publ. Biol. Sci., vol 2, No. 2, p. 

 113, figs. 72b,e,f, 1921. 



Type data. USNM 201408. Holotype female, allotype male from 

 Sciurus ferrugineus cinnamomeus [Callosciurus ferrugineus cinnam- 

 omeus], South East Siam. 



The type slide, containing a male and a female, bears the following 

 data: "Ferris Col. 457, Type cf allot. 9, Hoplopleura erismata n. sp., 

 from Sciurus ferrugineus cinnamomeus, S. E. Siam. USNM 201408." 

 The holotype is accepted as being the female on this slide, "type cf 

 allot. 9" as written on the slide label being a lapsus. 



Present status: As originally described. 



Haematopiniis hesperomydis Osborn, U. S. Dep. Agr. Div. Ent. Bull, (old 

 series) 7, p. 26, fig. 14, 1891. 



Type data: Male(s) and female(s) from white-footed mouse or deer 

 mouse, Hesperomys leucopus [Peromyscus leucopus subsp.] at Ames, 

 Iowa. 



There is in the collection one slide bearing a label on the right in 

 Osborn's handwriting: "Haematopinus hesperomydis n. sp., from 

 white-footed mouse, H. O. 1885." There are three male and one 

 female syntypes on the slide; a well-preserved male is chosen lectotype 

 and has been circled with a diamond point pencil. 



Present status: Hoplopleura hesperomydis (Osborn), 1891. 



