NYCTEEIBIID^ — PULICID^. 
Ins, 201 
Olfersia botauri, Italy, on Ardea purpurata, p. 22; garzettcey Insubria, 
host unknown, falcinelli, Malta, host unknown, p. 23 : id, 1. c., spp. nn. 
Nycteribia ercolanii, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 7, parasitic on Myotus murinus. 
POLYCTENIDJI. 
Waterhouse, C. O. On the affinity of the genus Polyctenes, Giglioli, 
with a description of a new species. Tr. E. Soc. 1879, pp. 309-312, 
pis. ix. & X. 
The author considers this abnormal form to be the type of a new 
family, allied to the Ilijipoboscidce rather than to the Hemiptera. One 
new genus and 3 new species are described. A. E. Eaton suggests its 
affinity with the Anoplura', P. E. Soc. 1879, p. xlv. Rejoinder by J. 0. 
Westwood ; op. cit. p. xlix. 
Euctenodes, g. n., C. O. Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1879, p. 311. Allied 
to Strebla, with which it agrees most nearly in neuration. Eyeless ; head 
below with a series of long spines arranged like a comb along the pos- 
terior margin. Abdomen not divided into segments. Wings well deve- 
loped. Type, E. mirahilis, sp. n., 1. c. pi. x., Colombia F. 
Polyctenes lyrce, figs. 1 & 2, taken from a bat (^Megaderma lyra) re- 
ceived from Secunderabad, Madras Presidency, and spasmce, figs. 3, 3 a, 
& 4, from a bat (if. spasmd) from Java, spp. nn., 0. O. Waterhouse, 1. c. 
pp. 311 & 312, pi. h. 
(APHANIPTERA.) 
(PuLICIDiE.) 
Fleas on moles (very large) ; W. Locock, Sci. Goss. xv. p. 282. 
Pulex erinacei, J. Fedarb, Sci. Goss. xv. p. 258, on hedgehog ; P. (?) 
grossiventris, Weijenbergh, Bol. Ac. Arg. iii. p. 188, on Dasypus minutus 
(possibly a Sarcopsylld) : spp. nn. 
Sarcopsylla gallinacea, Westw., is probably distinct from Hectopsylla 
psittaci, Frauenf. ; Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. xxii. p. Ixxxvii. 
