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MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 



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Reports on Plague Investigations in 

 India. 



BAKER, C. F. The Classification of the American Siphonaptera. Pro~ 



ccedings of the United States National Museum, 

 Vol. xxix, pp. 121-170. 1905. 



The first paper contains a systematic account of the 

 American genera and species of fleas, including de- 

 scriptions of many new species. The second paper 

 is supplementary to the first. 



Untersuchungen iiber die Larve von Ctenocephalus 

 canis, Curtis- I. Teil. 13 Text Figures and one 

 Plate. Archiv fiirMicroskopische Anatomic. Band 

 80. Heft 2, 1912. This paper contains a well illus- 

 trated description of the internal anatomy of the 

 larva of Ctenocephalus canis. 



JORDAN, K. and ROTHSCHILD, N/ C. A Revision of the Sarcopsyllidae, a family of the Sipho- 

 naptera. Thompson Yates and Johnston Labora- 

 tories Reports, Vol. vii, Part i, 1906. 



An account of the Sarcopsyllidae ; morphology, classifi- 

 cation, descriptions of new species ; fifty-six pages 

 with four plates and a full bibliography. 



Revision of the non-combed eyed Siphonaptera. Parasi- 

 tology, Vol. i, No. 1, 1908. Ninety-nine pages, seven 

 plates, full bibliography. This paper deals very fully 

 with the group of genera allied to and including 

 Xenopsylla. 



Published as supplementary numbers to the Journal 

 of Hygiene, Vol. vi to xii, 1906 to 1912. 



These reports contain a large number of papers dealing 

 with the rat flea and its allies in relation to the trans- 

 mission of plague, including many important obser- 

 vations on bionomics, breeding habits and technique. 

 Among them may be noted the following : 



September, 1906. The Physiological Anatomy of the 

 Mouth Parts and Alimentary Canal of the Indian rat 

 flea, Pulex cheopis. 



July, 1907. On the External Anatomy of the Indian rat 

 flea, Pulex cheopis, and its differentiation from some 

 other common fleas. (The description of the external 

 anatomy is not in accord with the views of Jordan 

 and Rothschild in some particulars.) 



December, 1912. Observations on flea-breeding in 

 Poona. 



The special cages which were used in the demonstration 

 of the passage of plague from rat to rat by means of 

 the flea are described and figured in the first supple- 

 ment, September, 1906. 



Notes on Pulex canis and fells. Ent. Rec. and 

 Journ. of Var., Vol. xiii, p. 126, 1901. 



Some further notes on Pulex canis, Curtis and Pulex 

 felis, Bouche\ Novit. Zoolog., Vol. xii, pp. 192-3 

 1905. 



These two papers give the diagnostic points between 

 the two species. 



ROTHSCHILD, N. C. 



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