622 THE HON. N, C. ROTHSCHILD ON [May 26, 



truncate-eixiarginate, the lower corner being somewhat produced 

 and bearing a long thin bristle accompanied by a small one. The 

 manubrium (M) is very broad, the apex being pointed and 

 cvirved dorsad. The movable process (F) is very long. It is 

 pointed and curved, its upper edge being twice incurved. There 

 is a large number of bristles at the ventral margin of this 

 process, the distal ones being long. The vertical arm of the ninth 

 tergite (PI. XXYIII. fig. 6, IX. st.) is almost evenly curved. The 

 horizontal arm is shorter than the vertical one and bears two 

 strong spines ventrally at the apex, there being also a number of 

 thin bristles along the ventral margin and at the apex, as shown in 

 the figure. — $ . The seventh stei-nite is deeply sinuate, the upper 

 lobe being broad and the lower one narrow (PI. XXIX. fig. 9). 

 The eighth tergite bears on each side three or four small bristles 

 above the stigma. On the ventral portion of this sclerite there 

 a,i'e about twenty bristles, three or foin- placed at the apical margin 

 and five along the ventral edge. The lower apical angle of the 

 ■eighth tergite is produced. The anal sternite has on each side 

 two long bristles near the base, one in the centre and one near 

 the apex, besides two smallei' apical ones. 



Length : (5 $ 2-1 mm. 



We have one c? and two 2 from Mt. Albeit Edward, British 

 Xew Guinea, off 3Ii(,s mordax ; received from Mr. E. C Ohvibb. 



6. Pygiopsylla ferinus, sp. n. (Plate XXIX. fig. 11.) 



Nearest to F. mordax. 



Head. — The rostrum reaches nearly to the apex of the fore coxa. 

 The bristles of the anterior row of the frons are a little thicker 

 than in P. mordax. 



Thorax. — The pronotum has one row of bristles and a comb of 

 17 spines: The meso- and metanota have three rows of bristles, a 

 fourth (anterior) row being represented by a few short dorsal 

 bristles only. The epimerum of the metathoi-ax has ten bristles 

 (4, 3, 3), with some small hau-s in between the i^osteinor bristles. 



Abdomen, — The tergites have three I'ows of bristles, the 

 -anterior row being represented by but few bristles, except in the 

 case of the first segment, which bears about four additional 

 bristles on the two sides together, representing a more complete 

 fouith row. The bristles on the sternites are less numerous 

 than in P. mordax. 



Modified segments. — $ . The seventh sternite (PI. XXIX. 

 fig. 11) is bisinuate, the upper sinus being smaller than the 

 lower. The eighth segment is similar to that of P. mordax. 

 The anal sternite, however, is quite different. This sclerite has 

 beneath a prominent tubercle bearing a brush of long bristles. 



Length : 5 3 mm. 



We have one $ from Pundaloya, Ceylon, taken off Sorex sp 

 by Mr. E. E. Green. 



