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Thorax. The pronotum bears a row of 10 to 12 bristles, the 
mesonotum a row of 8 or 9, and the metanotmn one of 6 or 7 in the £ 
and 7 or 8 in the $, on the two sides together. The apex of the pleura 
of the prosternite is obtuse. The mesosternite bears 4 strong bristles, 
2 of them standing close together above the stigma. The epimerum 
of the metathorax has a posterior row of 4 bristles in the </, and of 
5 in the $, there being an additional bristle lower down on the sclerite 
representing the anterior row of other species of Loemopsylla. The apex 
of the metasternum is rounded. 
Abdomen. The first tergite bears a row of 4 bristles on the two 
sides together. The second to seventh tergites have in the one 
bristle below the stigma and 4 (segment 6 and 7) or 6 (segment 2 
to 5) on the back, there being a wide interspace between the infrastig- 
matical bristle and the dorsal ones. In the $ there are on the second 
to sixth segments 8 bristles, the gap between the two lower ones 
being much less wide than in the </, the second tergite bearing occasion¬ 
ally even 9 bristles. On the sternites the numbers of the bristles are 
in the 2, 4,4, 4, 4 and 6; in the ? 2, 4 or 5, 5 or 6, 5 or 6, G and 7 to 9. 
The subapical bristle of the seventh tergite is short in both sexes. 
Legs. The forecoxa bears 15 or 16 bristles. The comb on the 
pear-shaped hindcoxa is very variable, the number of spines being 
3 to 10; the row is very irregular. There are 3 stout bristles 
posteriorly near the apex of the hindcoxa. The midfemur bears 2 
subapical bristles on the outside and a row of 4 or 5 on the inside, the 
numbers being on the hindfemur 2 and 5 to 7 respectively. The 
tibiae have only one hair (or none) on the anterior surface, besides the 
apical and subapical bristles. The mid- and hindtibiae bear 6 pairs of 
dorsal bristles placed in notches (the apical bristles not being included in 
this number), the third pair being represented b} 7 a short stout bristle 
and a small hair. There is a regular lateral row of 7 or 8 bristles on the 
hindtibia. The longest ventral apical bristle of the hindtibia extends to 
the apex of the first tarsal segment, while the longest dorsal apical bristle 
reaches only to the subapical notch of the segment. The first and 
second hindtarsal segments are together as long as the hindtibia. The 
long bristles of the hindtarsus become very thin towards their apex, 
while the short apical bristles are stout and blunt. The long apical 
bristle of the second segment reaches beyond the base of the fifth. 
There is a long thin bristle at the apex of the fourth which extends to 
the claw. The fourth hindtarsal segment is nearly as broad as it is long. 
The fifth segment is large in all tarsi, distinctly widening apicad. The 
