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The Non-Combed Eyed Siphonaptera 
rostrum does not reach to the apex of the forecoxa. The labial palpus has 
five segments. The ffons bears two rows of bristles, those of the anterior 
row being short and rather thin, except the one which is situated near 
the antennal groove. There are three rows of bristles on the occiput. 
Thorax. The pronotum has two rows of bristles (8, 15), the 
mesonotum also two (13 to 16,15), and the metanotum four rows (5 to 10, 
20, 20, 15 to 17). There are 4 bristles on the pleura of the mesothorax, 
while the epimerum of the metathorax bears 10 to 12 bristles in two 
rows (5 or 7, 4 to 6), there being no bristles close to the upper anterior 
corner of this sclerite. 
Abdomen. The first tergite has two rows of bristles (12 and 8 or 
10); on the second tergite there are about 8 small bristles in the 
anterior row and 12 in the posterior series. The third to seventh 
tergites have in the from 0 to 3 bristles in the anterior series and 
12 in the posterior, while the numbers in the $ are 4 and 14, the 
seventh tergite bearing in this sex a row of 9 or 10 bristles and in front 
of it about 7 small ones. On the basal sternite there are two lateral 
rows of hairs. The sternites of the third to seventh segments bear in 
the 4 long and some small bristles and in the $ 8 long bristles on 
the two sides together, the second sternite having some additional hairs 
in front of the row in both sexes. The first tergite, like the metanotum, 
has a comb of short apical spines, the following four tergites also bearing 
from 1 to 3 small spines. The edge of the pygidial plate is strongly 
raised anteriorly, projecting backwards in a side-view. 
Legs. The hindcoxa has 3 bristles posteriorly at the apex. The 
femora bear two rows of bristles on the outside, the upper row of the 
hindfemur being restricted to the posterior half of the femur. The 
forefemur has on the inside only 2 small bristles, one situated nearly 
in the centre, the other ventrally near the apex. The hindfemur bears 
on the inside a row of 7 or 8 bristles. The bristles of the tibiae and 
hindtarsi are long and thick. The hindtibia bears about 12 short 
bristles at and near the anterior side, while there are usually 10 longer 
ones on the lateral sui’face. In the $ the longest apical bristle of the 
hindtibia reaches to the apex of the first hindtarsal segment, the longest 
bristle of this segment extending to the tip of the second segment, and 
the longest bristle of the second segment to the apex of the fourth, these 
bristles being somewhat longer in the </• The fifth tarsal segment is 
large, the claws being also very long, this segment of the hindtarsus 
being as long as the first and second segments of the midtarsus 
together (PI. Ill, fig. 11). 
