Further records and descriptions of fleas from Ecuador

Resumen

With 12 text-figures.) \\ /"E are very much indebted to Dr. F. SpiUmann for a further consignment of Siphonaptera, collected by him in the highlands of Ecuador during April 1931. The collection extends our knowledge of the range of several genera and renders it also possible to clear up some points in taxonomy which had to be left in abeyance for lack of adequate material. It is especially worthy of note that the collection contains no less than 5 species of Helmed Fleas, allied to the Australian genus Stephanocircus Skuse 1893.