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CATALOGUE OF BRITISH S I P H N A P T E R A. 



1. Suborder: INTEGBICIPITA. 



A. Family : Pulicidae. 

 A*. Subfamily : Pulicinae. 



I. Genus: XENOPSYLLA Glink. (1907). 

 Type : cheopis. 

 Pulex Taschenberg' (nee L., 1758), Flolie, p. 64 (1880) (partini). 

 Xenoi-ysylla Gliiikiewicz, Sitzber. Ak. Wiss. Wien., Math. Nat. CI., CXVI, 

 p. 385 (1907) (type: pachijuromyidis = cheopis). 



Loemopsylla Jordan and Rothschild. Parasitology, I, p. 15 (1908) (type; 

 cheopis). 



Xenopsylla Rothschild, Nov. Zool., XVI, p. 132 (1909) (= Loemopsylla) ; 

 Patton and Cragg, Textb. Med. Entom., p. 453 (1913). 



1. XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS Roths. (1903). 



Pidcx cheopis Rothschild, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), XIV, p. 85, no. 4, pi. 1, figs. 3, 

 9, and pi. 2, figs. 12, 19 (1903) (Shendi, Sudan). 



Pxdex murinus Tiraboschi, Arch. Parasit., VIII, p. 251, fig. 15, g (1904) 

 (Italy). 



Pulex philippinensis Herzog, Bull. Bur. Govmt. Labor. Manila, XXIII, p. 77, 

 figs. 26, 27 (1904) (Manila). 



Pulex cheopis Rothschild, I.e. (2), XVI, p. 139 (1905) (Plymouth). 



Xenopsylla pachyuromyidisGlinkiewicz, I.e. (1907) ; Roths., Nov. Zool., XVI, 

 p. 132 (1909) (= cheopis). 



Loemopsylla cheopis Jordan and Rothschild, Parasitology, I, p. 42, no. 6, 

 pi. 1 ; pi. 2, fig. 8 ; pi. 4, fig. 8 ; pi. 6, fig. 1 (1908) (monograph) ; Shipley, Journ. 

 Econ. Biol., Ill, p. 69 (1908). 



Pulex tripolitanus Fulmek, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. XXVIII, p. 289 (1909) 

 (Tripoli) ; Roths., Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), XXI, p. 30 (1910) (= cheopis). 



Xenopsylla cheopis Rothschild, I.e. (2), XXII, p. 68 (1911) (London) ; id.. I.e., 

 p. 113 (1911) (London) ; Bacot, Journ. Hygiene, Plagtie Suppl., Ill, p. 449, 

 pi. 28, figs. 3, 4 (1914) (bionomics). 



Hah. : Africa, Asia, now in nearly all warm countries. Hosts : rats. 



IL Genus: PULEX L. (1758). 



Type : irritans. 



Pulex Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, p. 614 (1758) (partim) ; Taschenb., 

 Plohe, p. 64 (1880) (partim) ; Jord. and Roths., Parasitology, I, p. 5 (1908). 



2. PULEX IRRITANS L. (1758). 



Flea, Pulex Hooke, Microgr., p. 61, pi. 32, ? (1665) ; Charlet., Exercit., 

 p. 53 (1677) ; Leeuwenh., Arc. Nat., I, p. 20 (1695) ; Raius, Hist. Ins., p. 7 (1710) 

 {Pulex vulgaris) ; Albin, Nat. Hist. Spid. and Ins., p. 69, pi. 41, ? (1736) ; 



