The N<m-Conibed Eyed Siphonaptera 
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(13) Loemopsylla scopulifer Rothsch. (1905). 
(PI. V, figs. 1 and 9.) 
Pulex scopulifer Rothschild (1905, p. 480, n. 2, t. 13, fig. 5, Umfolozi, South Africa, 
off Saccostomus campestris). 
The f differs abundantly from all the other species of Loemopsylla 
in the structure of the genitalia, as well as in the long subapical bristle 
of the seventh abdominal tergite being placed on a conical process, 
while the $ is distinguished by the stout bristles of the legs and the 
large number of bristles situated on the seventh abdominal sternite. 
Head. The subapical row of the occiput contains 6 or 7 bristles on 
each side. There are 2 hairs at the tip of the conical projection of 
the first antennal segment of the ^. 
Thorax. The pro-, meso-, and metanota on the two sides together 
bear in the $ 16 bristles, while there are one or two less in the </. 
There are 5 or 6 bristles on the pleura of the mesothorax. The 
episternum of the metathorax has one bristle, and the epimerum in 
the f usually 14 (7, 7) and in the ? 14 to 16 (9, 7 or 8, 6). 
Abdomen. The number of bristles on the tergites are as follows 
(on the two sides together):—i. 14 to 16 in two rows (=7, 7 or 8, 8); 
ii. 18 or 19; iii. 18 to 21 ; iv. 16 to 20; v. 17; vi. 16; vii. 13 to 15. 
The dorsal subapical bristle of the seventh tergite which in the f 
stands on a prominent conical process (PI. V, fig. 1) equals in length 
the first and second midtarsal segments. On the sternites there are 
the following bristles:—ii. 2; iii. f 9, $ 12; iv. f 10, $ 12; 
v. </ 10, $ 10; vi. </ 10, $ 10 to 15; vii. </ 14, $ 18. On the 
seventh segment there are, moreover, in the f about 3 hairs in 
front of this row, and in the ? about 15 or even more, on the two sides 
together. 
Legs. The forecoxa bears about 37 bristles. The midfemur has 
3 bristles on the inside and the hindfemur 4 or 5, while both have 
2 subapical bristles on the outside. The bristles of the tibiae are 
stout. The shortest dorsal apical bristle of the foretibia is very blunt 
and thick, the other apical bristles being also less pointed than usual. 
The longer curved apical bristle of the hindfemur is shorter than the 
hindtibia is broad at the apex. In the f the longest apical bristle of 
the hindtibia extends to the subapical notch of the first tarsal segment, 
while it reaches in the $ to the centre of the segment. The longest 
apical bristle of the second hindtarsal segment extends to the apex of 
