1915.] 10 1 



26. CERATOPHYLLUS MELIS Walk. (1856). 

 Ceratophyllus melis Curtis, Brit. Ent., IX, no. 417 (18.32) (iiom. nvid.). 

 Pulex melis Walker, Dijit. Brit., Ill, p. 5, no. 14 (1856) (badger) ; Verrall, 

 List Brit. Dipt., I, p. 5 (188S) ; Theob., Ace. Brit. Flies, p. 32 (1892). 

 Trichojjsylla melis Verrall, List Brit. Dipt., I, ed. 2, p. 7 (1901). 

 Hab. : Europe, Northern Asia. Host: Meles meles. 



D'. Subfamily: Ctenophthalminae. 



VIIL Genus: CTENOPHTHALMUS Kolen. (1856). 



Type : bisoctodentatus. 



Cletiophihalmus Kolenati, Paras. Chiropt., p. 33 (1856) (partim); id., Hor. 

 Soc. Ent. Ross., II, p. 35 (1863) (type : bisoctodentatus). 



Typhlopsylla Tasclienborg, Plohe, p. 86 (1880) (partim). 



Spalacopsijlla Oudemans, Ent. Bericht., II, p. 22C (1907) (type: bisoctoden- 

 tatus). 



Ctenophthalmus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., XVIII, p. 80 (1911). 



27. CTENOPHTHALMUS AGYRTES Heller (1896). 



Tyijhlopsylla assimilis Saunders (nee Tasehenb., 1880, err. determ.), Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. (2), II, p. 170 (1891) (Sheffield, Woking, Ventnor) ; Theob., Ace. Brit. 

 Flies, p. 35 (1892). 



Typhlopsylla agyrtes Heller, Ent. Nachr., XXII, p. 97, text-figs. 1 and 2 

 (1896) (Borkrun) ; Roths., Nov. Zool,, V, p. 538, pi. 15a, fig. 2; pi. 17, figs. 12, 

 14, 17-25 (189**) (various places in England and Scotland); Verrall, List Brit. 

 Dipt., I,ed. 2, p. 7 (1901) ; Evans, Ann. Scot. N. H. Soc., p. 162 (1906) (Edinburgh 

 distr.); Waterst., ibid., p. 213 (1906); Malloch, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), XVIII, 

 p. 86 (1907) (Dumbartonshire, nest of field-mouse). 



Ctenophthalmus agyrtes Gibbs and Barr., Trans. Herts. N. H. Soc, XIII, 

 p. 250 (1908) (Tring) ; Waterst., Ann. Scot. N. H. Soc., p. 228 (1909) (Scottish 

 local.; Orkneys); Waterst., Proe. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb., XVIII, p. 89 (1910) 

 (Scottish records); Evans, I.e., p. 184 (1910) (Loch Tay, water-vole); Roths., 

 Bull. Ent. Research, I, p. 97, text-fig. 22 (1910) ; Shipley, Journ. Econ. Biol., 

 VI, p. 20 (1911); Strickl. and Merrim., Parasit., VI, p. 11 (1913) (Suffolk and 

 Essex); Nuttall and Strickl., ibid., VI, p. 18 (1913) (Cambs.); Patton and 

 Cragg, Textb. Med. Entom., p. 457, pi. 56, fig. 2 (1913); Russell, The Flea, 

 p. Ill (1913). 



Ctenopthalmus (!) agyrtes Waterston, Ent. Mo. Mag. (2) XXV, p. 162 

 (1914) (Scottish records). 



ah. NOBILIS Roths. (1898). 



Typhlopsylla agyrtes nnbilis Rothschild, Nov. Zool., V, p. 539 (1898) 

 (Tring). 



Typhlopsylla agyrtes var. nobilis Verrall, List Brit. Dipt. I, ed. 2, p. 7 (1901). 



Ctenophthalmus agyrtes nobilis, Russell, The Flea, p. 112 (1913). 



Hub.: Western and Central Europe. Hosts: Chiefly voles, but also on 

 Apodemus sijlvaticiis and rats, 



