48 
The Non-Combed Eyed Siphonaptera 
Abdomen. The first row on the first tergite contains 6 or 7 bristles, 
and the second row 6 on both sides together, the numbers of bristles 
on the other tergites being on the two sides together, 16 or 17, 16,15 
or 16, 14, and 13 or 14. On the sternites of segments 2 to 7 the 
numbers of the bristles are in the </ 2, 7 or 8, 7 to 9, 10 or 11, 8 to 10, 
and 10, there being 2 to 4 small hairs in front of the row on the seventh 
segment. In the $ the numbers of bristles on the sternites 3 to 7 are 
rather larger than in the £. The dorsal subapical bristle of the 
seventh sternite is nearly as long as the first and second midtarsal 
segments together. 
Legs. On the forecoxa there are close on 40 bristles. The 
forefemur bears on the outer side 6 to 8 hairs. On the midfemur there 
are laterally 4 or 5 subventral bristles on the inside and 2 subapical 
ones on the outside, while the hindfemur has 5 to 7 on the inside and 
2 on the outside. The bristles of the tibiae and tarsi are stout, being 
shorter and much stronger than in L. nubicus and also much shorter 
than in L. cheopis and eridos. The longest apical bristle of the hindtibia 
does not reach the subapical bristles of the first hindtarsal segment 
(PI. Ill, fig. 3). The longest apical bristle of the first hindtarsal 
segment does not extend to the apex of the second segment, while the 
longest dorsal apical bristle of the second segment only reaches to the 
base of the fourth segment, the longest bristle on the anterior side of 
the second segment not even extending to the apex of the third 
segment, these bristles, therefore, being much shorter than irt the allied 
species. The fifth segment bears 3 ventral apical spines in the 
fore- and midtarsi, and a long and short one instead in the hindtarsus, 
these bristles being stouter in the </ than in the $. 
Modified segments. </. The genitalia are nearly as in L. nubicus. 
The bristles on the eighth sternite are more numerous, and there are 
also more hairs at and near the apex of the shorter one of the two 
processes of the clasper.— $. The bristles of the eighth abdominal 
tergite are more numerous than in the allied species, especially the 
short ones situated on the inner side of the segment (PI. VI, fig. 4). 
Length. 2 3 mm., $ 2’6 mm. 
We have 9 d and 12 $ $ from Christmas Island, south of Java, 
taken off Mus madeari by C. W. Andrews, in December 1901. 
The species is doubtless more widely distributed. 
CORRECTION 
p. 48, second line from the bottom, 
instead of “C. W. Andrews” read “Dr H. E. Durham.” 
