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the south of France, in Italy, in Spain and in Dalniatia ; in Central 

 Europe it has been recorded from Mont Cenis. It is therefore hardly 

 to be ex[)eclc(l in ihis country. 



Had these siiecinicns been t:ikeu in the south of Europe I should 

 have named them F. dec/pints without a moment's hesitation. They 

 were crawling freely about in the dun*;, but though both sexes of 

 typical -P. auricula rid were abun<laiit, I failed to find a male of the 

 wingless form. 



The riddle is intensely interesting, and it cannot be cleared up 

 without discovery of the male. 1 ap[)eal therefore 1o entomologists 

 to keep a sharp look ont for wlmt appears to be the common earwig 

 without wings, foi- it would be I'.iost satisfactory to add a good and 

 indigenous s|)ecies to our l>ritisli list, which is rather meagre in this 

 respect. 



Sibertswold, near Dover : 



Jaltf 15M, 1907. 



SOME NEW AFRICAN iilFHONAPTERA. 



BY THE HON. N. C. BOTHSCHILD, M.A., T.L.S. 



Platk III. 



The species here described were obtained by Baron Maurice 

 de Eolhschild on his ex|)edition through Abyssinia and East Africa. 



1. Ctenocephalus kosmabus, sp. nov. (figs. 1 and 2). 



The head beiirs anteriorly at the genal edge one long curved epine and some- 

 times a second smaller one. 'J'he prolhorax has a comb of 14 spii)es. Tlie tlioracic 

 and abdominal tergites bear each one row of bristles. On the inside of the hind 

 coxa there is an irregular row of from 7 to 9 short stout spines, the hind femur 

 bearing on the same side a series of 6 to 8 bristles. 



The genitalia of tlie male resemble those of C. erhiacei. There is a large hairy 

 flap, slightly curved downwards, and beneath it a short triangular process bearing 

 bristles. There are no luiirs above the stigma of the eighth abdominal tergite of 

 the female, but the apical edge of this scierite is densely hairy, there being also on 

 the side a number of bristles. 



Tchalenko, East Africa, off Hyrax ahyssinicus. 



LISTKOPSYLLA, gen. nov. 



Frons with a large spade-shaped tubercle. Eye small. Behind the same a 

 bristle-like spine. No genal comb. The labial palpus consists of 4 segments. 

 Pronotum with a comb containing more than 25 spines. Mcsonotum with thin 

 subapical spines. No apical spines on metanotuni, but there arc such spines on the 

 first five abdominal tergites. 



Type: agrippi7ies, liothsch. (1902, described as a Ccratophyllus). 



2. LiSTKOPSYLLA DOLOSUS, Sp. noV. 

 Differs from L. agrippinx as follows : — There are on the pronotum two rows of 



