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Degeeriella sp. 



Goniocotes gigas, Nitzsch. From fowls, Johannesburg, Transvaal. 



Goniocotes hologaster, Nitzsch. 



Goniodes stylifer, Nitzsch. From a domestic turkey, Manhica. 



Lipeurus columbae (L.). From domestic pigeons, Lourenco Marques. 



Lipeurus heterographus, Nitzsch. From fowls, Pretoria, Transvaal. 



Lentes capensis, L. From fowls in Wolmaranstad District, Transvaal. 



Philopterus semivittatus, Giebel. 



Philopterus setosus, Piaget. From Halcyon chelicuti, StanL, at Sao Paulo. 



Philopterus platystomus, Nitzsch. From yellow-billed kite, Milvus aegyptius, 

 Gmel., in Lomagundi District, Southern Rhodesia ; also from an eagle, probably 

 Aqnila rapax, Temm., near Lourenco Marques. 



Philopterus sp. 



Family Liotheidae. 



Liotheum caudatum (Giebel). From Secretary Bird, Pretoria. 

 Liotheum longicaudum, Nitzsch. 

 Menacanthus spiniger (End.) 

 Menopon biseriatum, Piaget. 



Menopon trigonocephalies, Olfers. From fowls in Gazaland and Zululand. 

 Menopon sp. In the ears of Burchell's coucal, Centropus burchelli, Swains., at 

 Manhica. 



Trinoton anseris, Sulz. From a small wild duck on the Maputa River. 



Order Siphonaptera. 

 Family Pulicidae. 



Ceratophyllus numae, Roths. From field-mouse, Arvicanthis pumilio, Spar., 

 about Pretoria. 



Ctenocephalus canis, Curtis. On dogs and in houses at Lourenco Marques, 

 Umbelusi, Sao Paulo, Mambone, Zambesia District. I have also taken them in 

 houses at Pretoria, and from the following wild animals : — Erinaceus frontalis. 

 Smith, at Pietersburg, N. Transvaal, Felis nigripes, Burchell, at the Pretoria 

 Zoological Gardens, and from genets (Genetta felina, Thb.), at Lourenco Marques. 



Ctenocephalus felis, Bouche. From dogs at Umbelusi, and also at Pretoria. 

 From cats at Lourenco Marques and Pretoria. Specimens were also found in 

 the sand near a pigeon-cot in the neighbourhood of Lourenco Marques. 



Ischnopsylla incerta, Roths. From bats at Chibuto. 



Xenopsylla cheopis, Roths. From rats at Lourenco Marques. 



Xenopsylla scopulifer, Roths. Probably from rats. 



Pulex irritans, L. From a house at Tzaneen, Northern Transvaal. 



Family Sarcopsyllidae. 



Dermatophilus (Sarcopsylla) penetrans, L. Very common in the central and 

 northern parts of the Province, but I have never seen it in the southern districts. 



Echidnophaga gallinacea, Westw. Taken from fowls at Lourenco Marques and 

 Magude ; from dogs at Nkanene and Umbelusi ; from domestic rabbits at Magude ; 

 and from cats at Quelimane. I have also taken them from fowls and cats at 



