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of a new Pulicideous Insect from Ceylon." To this article I have not 
had access. 
My original identification was made from the figure and description 
by Dr. O. Taschenberg in his useful monographic work u Die Flohe," 
which was based on type-example in Ritzema Bos's collection received 
from Westwood. Westwood states that the creatures fastened to the 
eyelids and on the neck of the domestic hen at Colombo, Ceylon, whence 
they were brought to England by Mr. Moseley, of the Challenger Expe- 
dition. 
To further insure the accuracy of the identification of the Floridian 
examples with the Asiatic species, I sent one to Dr. Julius Wagner, of 
St. Petersburg, who writes me as follows : "The flea sent is Sarcopsylla 
gallinacea $ , and quite similar to the examples of which I send you a 
pair ( $ and 9 )." 
These specimens were from a second locality in Asia, the slide being 
labeled " Strix sp. Murgab, Suiran-Beir, 3, v, 1893." This locality we 
suppose to be in Turkestan. It is noteworthy that the host is an 
owl. It is possible that the wide zoographical distribution of this spe- 
cies is due to the fact that it is carried about from one region to 
another by birds. 
On comparing the Turkestan specimens with those from Florida I 
am unable to see any difference ; the proportions of the different parts 
of the body being the same, 
the joints and armature of the 
legs and tarsi not differing. 
I add camera sketches of the 
two sexes. Fig. 8, male, with 
the antennae and palpi enlarged ; 
Fig. 9, female, drawn to the 
same scale. 
I may add that Dr. Julius 
Wagner, who is giving much 
attention to the Siphonaptera, 
is desirous of receiving speci- 
mens of fleas from this country. 
He recommends collecting them 
in the spring or in the begin- 
ning of summer. At that season one may find the larvae and pupae in 
the nests and holes of Mammalia, and the adult insects on the same 
animals, especially on the young ones. Dr. Wagner's address is the 
Zoological Laboratory of the Imperial University of St. Petersburg. 
Fig. 9. Sarcopsylla gallinacea: Female— enlarged. 
(From drawings by Packard.) 
