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The Non-Cowheel Eyed Siphonaptera 
(19) Loemopsylla myeerini Rothsch. (1904). 
(PL III, fig. 2 ; VII, fig. 2.) 
Pulex myeerini Rothschild (1904 6, p. 1, n. 1, t. 1, figs. 1, 2, 4, Lower Egypt, off 
Gerbillus tarabuli ); Baker (1905 a, p. 142). 
Head. The rostrum is somewhat longer than the maxillary palpus, 
but does not reach to the apex of the forecoxa. The second segment of 
the maxillary palpus is shorter than the fifth, being one-fifth longer than 
the first. The subapical row of bristles of the occiput contains 4 bristles 
on each side, besides a dorsal one, the first and second bristles being 
placed wide apart. Beneath the first bristle there is a rather long thin 
hair. Above the centre of the antennal groove there is one long 
bristle. 
Thorax. The pronotum bears 12 bristles, the mesonotum 12 in the 
</ and 10 or 11 in the $, the metanotum 8 or 9 in the </ and 10 in the 
$. The pleura of the mesothorax has 4 bristles, two of them placed 
close together above the stigma. On both the sternum and the 
episternum of the metathorax there is a single bristle, while the 
epimerum bears two rows of 6 to 8 bristles (2 to 4, 4). The pleura of 
the prosternite is pointed behind. 
Abdomen. The first tergite bears two rows of bristles, the first 
row (which is sometimes missing in the $ ) containing 3 to 5, and the 
second 4 to 7 bristles. The second to fourth tergites in the <£ bear 
12 bristles on the two sides together and the fifth to seventh tergites 
10 bristles; in the $ the second to sixth have 12 bristles and the 
seventh 10. The subapical bristle of the seventh tergite is much 
longer than the second midtarsal segment, equalling the second 
hindtarsal segment. The basal sternite bears in both sexes 2 ventral 
bristles on the two sides together, the following 4 sternites having in 
the </ 4 bristles and in the $ 6 to 8, the sternite of the seventh 
segment bearing 6 bristles in the </ and 8 in the $. 
Legs. The forecoxa bears about 20 bristles. The hindcoxa is 
rounded posteriorly, the sinus being very shallow. There are 2 
subapical bristles on the hinder side. The comb contains 6 or 7 spines. 
The hindfemur is broad near the base, being strongly rounded ventrally. 
It has a row of 5 to 7 bristles on the inside and 2, in the $ sometimes 
3, subapical bristles on the outside. The longest ventral apical bristle 
of the hindtibia is a little shorter than the dorsal one, the latter 
reaching close to the apex of the first hindtarsal segment (PI. Ill, fig. 2). 
