56 
The Non-Combed Eyed Siphonaptera 
lateral bristles of the same are long, those of the third pair standing 
close together. Ventrally at the apex this segment bears in all the tarsi 
one long and one short spine-like bristle. 
Modified segments. <$. The eighth sternite bears 4 or 5 small 
bristles on each side, besides one or two minute hairs. The clasper has 
two free processes, both being slender (PI. IV, fig. 12). Beneath them 
there is a third short, broad process, which is not separated from the body 
of the clasper. The ninth sternite is somewhat acuminate, as shown in 
the figure, being elongate boat-shaped in side-view.— $. The upper 
posterior corner of the eighth tergite is somewhat curved upwards, more 
distinctly so than in the </• The apical lateral margin is rounded. 
There is, on the outside, a row ’of about 15 bristles along the margin, 
besides 5 to 7 lateral bristles, 3 of the apical bristles being very 
stout; on the inside there are 5 or 6 apical bristles. The stylet is only 
a little longer than it is broad. 
Length. 1‘6 mm., J 2'3 mm. 
We have a large series of both sexes from Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 
off Felis caracal, March 1902, Procavia capensis, April 1902, and Spreo 
bicolor, May 1902, collected by C. H. B. Grant; also from Wakkerstroom, 
Transvaal, April 1904, off Procavia capensis, secured by the same 
collector. 
(16) Loemopsylla isidis Rotlisclu (1903). 
(PI. II, fig. 16 ; IV, fig. 11 ; VI, fig. 3.) 
Pulex isidis Rothschild (1903, p. 313, n. 2, t. 5, figs. 2, 5, 6, 8, Harar, off Procavia)-, 
Wagner (1903, p. 508); Baker (1905 a, p. 142). 
This insect, which agrees in size with L. creusae, is otherwise closely 
allied to L. divergens. It is much paler than both. The rostrum is 
longer than the maxillary palpus, reaching to the apex of the forecoxa. 
There is a bi'istle above the centre of the antennal groove on the occiput, 
this bristle being usually small in the $, while it is rather long and 
strong in the </. The subapical row of bristles of the occiput contains 
5 bristles on each side, there being no wide gap between the first and 
second, as is the case in both creusae and divergens. The dorsal margin 
of the eighth abdominal tergite and the apical dorsal angle of the seventh 
are much less chitinized and project much less than in the two species 
mentioned. The number of bristles of the second to sixth tergites is 
10 on the two sides together. The sternites bear about the same 
number of bristles as in creusae. The hindcoxa (PI. II, fig. 16) has 
