MISCELLANEA. 



INSECTS. 



Report on a smai.l Collection of Fleas from India 



AND China. 



[The following report on a small collection of fleas belonging 

 to the Indian Museum has been received from the Hon. Charles 

 Rothschild.] 



Pulex irritans, Linnaeus. 



1758. Systenia Naturae, Ed. x, No. 614. 



Tengyueh, Yunnan, W. China; ca. 5,400 ft. 

 Ukhrul, Manipur, Assam ; 6,400 ft. 

 Darjiling, E. Himalayas; 7,000 ft. 



Ceratophyllus alladinis, Rothschild. 



1904. Novitates Zoologicae, vol. xi, p. 632, No. 23, pi. xii, 

 fig. 53- 



Garhwal, W. Himalayas; from Pteromys inornatus. 



[Described from Sidapur, India; from " small jungle 

 squirrel."] 



Xenopsylla nesiotes, Rothschild and Jordan. 



1908. Parasitology, vol. i, p. 47, No. 10, pis. iii, vi, figs. 3, 4. 



Calcutta; from rat (? Mus rattus). 



[Described from Christmas Island ; from Mus macleari.] 



Xenopsylla pallidus, Taschenberg. 

 1880. Die Flohe, p. 65, pi. i, fig. 9. 

 Karachi^ Sind, W. India; from Erinaceus collaris. 



Ceratophyllus fasciatus, Bosc. 



1800. Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philoniatique , ii, 

 p. 156, No. 44. 



Amritsar, Punjab; from various species of rats. 

 ,, ,, ', from Mus rattus. 



Ctenocephalus canis, Curtis. 



1826. British Entomology, iii, No. 114, figs. A — E X 8. 

 Amritsar, Punjab. 



