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A New Flea From the Mojave Desert (California)
Among some interesting material recently received by the writer from J. C. Couffer of the Los Angeles Museum appears two fleas not only new to science, but in addition representing a genus here before unknown to southern ... -
Contributions from the Los Angeles Museum - Channel Islands Biological Survey No. 22: A New Subspecies of White-Footed Mouse from the Anacapa Islands, California
For some years past it has been known that white-footed mice occur on the Anacapa group of the northern Channel Islands of California. In his Review of the Recent Mammal Fauna of California (Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., vol. ... -
Ectoparasite-Host Records From the Sierran Region of East-Central California
In the last four summers the writer has been conducting a survey of ectoparasites found on small mammals and certain birds occurring on the eastern slope of the Central Sierra Nevada Range. Some interesting distributional ... -
Some New California Siphonaptera
For the past three summers the writer has had the pleasure of working with Dr. R. L. Rutherford, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, on a survey of parasites of small mammals and birds collected in the ... -
Some Notes on the Distribution Records of Little Known Southern California Echinoderms
During the past two years much of the research work of the Velero III, Hancock Foundation research ship, of The University of Southern California, has been carried out in the waters of Southern California. <br /><br />In ... -
The Allotype of Geusibia ashcrafti Auguston 1941
Some months ago the writer published his diagnosis of the holotype female (Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 39:203) of this very interesting parasite. Since that time there apparently has arisen some uncertainty among Siphonapterists ... -
The Bionomics of Ptinus californicus, a Depredator in the Nests of Bees
The habits of our native North American ptinids are practically unknown. A few species are thought to breed in bark or dead twigs, others in the roots of dry grass. As far as is known to the writers, there is no published ... -
The Phylogenetic Position of the Strepsiptera as Determined by the First Larva
In all of his studies in the interesting order Strepsiptera the writer has contended that the order bears little, beyond the superficial, resemblance to the Coleoptera, the only other insect order with metathoracic wings. ...