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an example of B. dlghjphis ? There is a species that must be somewhere 

 near it in Mr. Tomlin's collection, and I am a little doubtful whether 

 " diglyptus" should really have a place in our Catalogue. 



Brockenhiirst : 



December 28th, 1916. 



ON XENOPSYLLA AEQUISETOSUS ENDEEL. (1901). 

 BY THE HON. N. C. EOTHSCHILD, M.A., F.L.S. 



This species of Siplionapteni was described in 1901 by Enderlein 

 (I, p. 554) from a single female contained in the collection of the 

 Konigl. Zoologische Museum in Berlin. When, in 1908, we published 

 our revision of the non-combed eyed 8iplionai)tera (II, p. 45) the 

 species was still unknown to vis, except for Enderlein' s description and 



some additional notes received from the director of the Institute just 

 mentioned. In 1911, however, all the lieas of the Berlin Museum were 

 entrusted to us for study, inclusive of the types ; and in the catalogue 

 we gave of them (III, pp. 64 and 89) the differences between the females 



