( 536 ) 

 14. Ctenocephalus felis Boncli6 (1835). 



Puler felix Boach^, Nova Acta Ac. Leop. Giro!, xrii. p. 505. No. 4 (1835) ; Roths., JVop. Zonl. xii. 

 p. 192 (1905) (differences between canis and /«/«). 



3 c?c? from Ensso Nyiro, British East Africa, January 30, 1910, off Tacit i/or>/ctes 

 ruddi. 



5 cJc? and 12 ? ? from Voi, from British East Africa, April 16, 1010, off 

 Mungos ichneumun funestus. 



3 (Jc? and Hi ? ? from Rnmrnti, British East Africa, October 20 and 27, 1910, 

 off Lepiis victoriae. 



6 c?(? and 11 ? ? from Rumrnti, Bririsli East Africa, October 1910, off 

 Dendrohyrax cm icsliayi. 



1 S from Rnmrnti, oS Euxerus.cri/t/iropiis. 



3 ? ? from Masaka, Uganda, April 2, 1911, off domestic dog. 



1 ? from Kagamba, Uganda, Jnly 14, 1911, off man. 



Also long series taken at Mombasa from the blankets and beds of natives, 

 July 6, 1910, at Mazeras, British East Africa, off a negro and goats on Jnly 3 

 and 4, 1910, and on the ground in a Masai Kraal at Laikipia, British East Africa, 

 October 25, 1910. 



1 5. Ceratophyllus incisus spec. nov. (text-fig. 9). 



?. Mr. Kemp collected a number of specimens of a species of Ceratophi/llus, all 

 ? ? , which agrees well with C. fasciatus except in the smaller number of bristles 



Fig. 9. — Ceratnj;Jnjlbts 



on the abdominal .sternites and in the shape of the seventh steruite. As m fasciatus, 

 the rostrum reaches to the trochanter, the occiput bears one median bristle, not two, 

 And the forefemur a number of small bristles on the imter surf^ice. The comb con- 

 sists of nineteen to twenty-two teeth. The bristles number six to eiglit on the 

 sternites of the third to sixth abdominal segment on the two sides together, and on the 

 seventh steruite eight to thirteen. Tliis sternite is divided by a narrow sinus of 

 ,sli"htly variable depth into a rounded-triangular upper lobe and a broader truncate 



