HIPPO B0SCID2E PULICIDiE. 
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HlPPOBOSCIDiE. 
Lipoptena cervi, var. aids parasitic on elk described ; Schnabl, Deutsche 
E. Z. xxvi. p. 13. Cf. also Mik, Wien. ent. Z. i. pp. 64 & 65 
Lynchia , g. n., Weyeubergh, An. Soc. Arg. xi. [1881] p. 195. Inter- 
mediate between Ornithomyia and Olfersia ; antennae gemmiform [moni- 
liform ?], long, setose, inserted on the sides of the hypostoma. Ocelli 
absent ; ungues tridentate, wings broad, incumbent, much longer than 
the abdomen, and acuminate. Type, M. penclopes, sp. n., 1. c. p. 199, 
Tucuman. 
Nycteribia Jlava, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 194, Cordoba. 
Braulid^E. 
Braula caeca described and figured; Fedarb, Sci. Goss. xvii. pp. 108-110, 
figs. 69-74. 
(APHANIPTERA.) 
Pulicim:. 
Pulex feeding on the larvae of Tineina ; Boden, Ent. xv. p. 70. P. irri- 
tans : oviposition, &c. ; Scott, Sci. Goss, xviii. p. 9. 
Sarcopsylla penetrans , Westw. : distribution in Loango. It is said to 
have been introduced by an English ship from Rio in 1872; Giissfeldt, 
Loango Expedition, iii. pt. ii. pp. 297 & 298 [long recorded by the late 
J. J. Monteiro, in his work “ Angola and the River Congo,” London : 
1875 . — Ed.]. Noticed by White, Cameos from the Silver Land, ii. pp. 426 
& 427. 
