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and a wild (?) goat of Java. A recent description of a 

 second Mallophagan species from the domestic goat is 

 not convincing. The chamois has also an Anopluran, but 

 one, so far, peculiar to it. Three species of Gazella (or 

 Antilope) have three species of Trichodectes, of which 

 one is common to two host species, one of Arabia and 

 Syria and the other of north Africa and southwest Asia 

 generally. This same Trichodectes is also recorded from 

 the roan antelope, Hippotrarjus cyuinus, of cast central 

 and south Africa. One species of Gazella carries an 

 Anopluran peculiar to it, as docs also Tragclaphus fjratus 

 of west Africa. 



The order Carnivora is represented in the host list by 

 eight families and a total of fifty-four species. Only one 

 species of Anopluran, the common sucking louse of the 

 dog (not found yet even on the wolf or fox, both of which 

 have other records) is recorded from a Carnivore, outside 

 of the two families Trichechidae (walruses) and Phocid;c 

 (seals and sea-lions). From these two families, on the 

 other hand, only Anoplura are recorded. 



The family Felida? is represented by three species, the 

 domestic cat, the California lynx and the tiger. The cat 

 and lynx have a common Mallophagan parasite, Tricho- 

 dectes subrostratus (and no other), while the tiger has a 

 biting louse presumably peculiar to it. The description 

 of this parasite is, however, very brief and unsatisfactory. 



The family Viverridse, mongooses, ichneumons and 

 genets, is represented in the host-list by eight species, of 

 which five are of the genus Herpestes. Two of these 

 Herpestes species, one of southern Spain, north Africa 

 and Asia Minor, the other of west, east and south Africa, 

 harbor a common Mallophagan parasite. A record of 

 the finding of Trichodectes subrostratus, the familiar 

 biting louse of the cat, on Herpestes pluto, comes from 

 the Kameroons (Africa). It is probably a case off 

 straggling, the mongooses being common enough in gar- 

 dens, and some of them fairly domesticated. 



Of the family Canidse there are records from eleven 



