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The Non-Combed Eyed Siphonaptera 
some minute hairs. The first segment of the antenna bears in the </ 3 
hairs at the hinder edge and close to the apex a transverse row of 4 or 5, 
the apical projection in the $ bearing one hair. There is a long bristle 
above the centre of the antennal groove. ' 
Thorax. The epimerum of the metathorax bears very few bristles, 
the anterior row being represented by one bristle in the </, placed far 
downwards, and 2 in the $, while the posterior row contains 3 or 4 
bristles. Each thoracic tergite bears 8 bristles on the two sides 
together. 
Abdomen. The first tergite bears on the two sides together 4 post¬ 
median bristles and before the centre a few minute hairs. There is no 
bristle beneath the stigma of the second to seventh tergites. The 
tergites 2 to 6 bear in the 4 bristles on the two sides together, the 
bristles being all dorsal, the more ventral ones usually situated in 
this position being replaced by minute hairs; in the $ the number of 
bristles on these segments is 6. On the seventh tergite there are 
4 bristles in both sexes, one placed beneath the long subapical bristle. 
Legs. The forecoxa has less than 15 bristles. The tibiae bear on 
the outer surface only one bristle, which is situated near the postmedian 
dorsal pair. The first and fourth midtarsal segments (PI. Ill, fig. 8) are 
shorter than in L. pallidus. The fifth tarsal segment has no minute 
hairs on the ventral surface. 
Modified segments. J 1 . The first and third processes of the 
clasper are rather slenderer than in L. pallidus, the long subapical bristle 
being placed further away from the end. The ninth sternite is not so 
sharply hooked as in L. pallidus .— $ . The eighth sternite apparently 
as in L. pallidus. 
We have both sexes from Karo Lola, Garre Livin country, South 
Somaliland, off Sciurus spec., collected by the late Baron Carlo von 
Erlanger, on 5th May 1901. 
(3) Loemopsylla eleopatrae Rothsch. (1903). 
(PI. Ill, fig. 7; IV, fig. 7.) 
Pulex eleopatrae, Rothschild (1903, p. 84, n. 3, t. 1, figs. 4, 8, t. 2, figs. 13, 17, Shendi, 
off various hosts); Baker (1905, p. 141); Balfour (1906, p. 104, fig. 58). 
A small pale species, which is easily recognised by the long fourth 
hindtarsal segment. 
Head. The rostrum reaches to the trochanter. The proportional 
lengths of the segments of the maxillary palpus are 9, 12, 8, 14. The 
