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Rhopalopsyllus australis tupinus Jordan and Rothschild. 
Several males and females of this species were taken from 
two agoutis, Dasyprocta punctata nuchalis Goldman, that 
were captured at Camp Pital. 
Rhopalopsyllus lugubris cryptoctenes Enderloin. This 
species was represented by five specimens on one of the 
agoutis. 
Pediculus ( Parapediculus ) atelophilus Ewing. This 
species of sucking lice was found in abundance upon two 
baby monkeys purchased at Camp Bogamani by Dr. Clark 
in 1930. Camp Bogamani is located about five miles from 
Camp Pital. It is one of the District Camps of the Chir- 
iqui Land Company and many of the men employed in clear- 
ing work and banana culture kept monkeys and other ani- 
mals as pets. Those obtained there consisted of several very 
young red spider monkeys, Ateles geoffroyi Kuhl, and one 
white-throated monkey, Cebus capucinus imitator Thomas. 
One of the red spider monkeys was noted as being infested 
with lice at the time it was purchased. It was necessary to 
confine these six monkeys in the same cage during a period 
of about three days while being brought to this laboratory. 
On their arrival many lice were found on the white-throated 
monkey. It would seem that it must have been infested be- 
fore being purchased at Bogamani. Both of these infested 
monkeys were also heavily infected with malaria at this 
time and were in very poor condition. The heavy infesta- 
tion of the white-throated monkey was probably due to its 
weak and emaciated condition. Under normal conditions 
the Cebus monkeys keep themselves well picked over and 
seldom become infested with lice. The other four red spider 
monkeys each showed an infestation with lice a few days 
after arrival at the laboratory. It is of interest to note that 
no lice were found upon twenty-five red spider monkeys and 
twenty-nine white-throated monkeys that were examined 
soon after being captured or killed at Camp Pital while one, 
probably two, out of six monkeys that had been kept as 
pets proved to be infested with Pediculus ( Parapediculus 
atelophilus. 
Since nineteen species, representing eleven genera and 
