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DECEMBER 1995 583 1995 work as a Research Officer for the similar contacts. He both collected Commonwealth Sci-entific and fleas himself and stimulated others to Industrial Research Org-anization do likewise, coordinating the process to (CSIRO) during the period 1953-1958. result in a substantial am-ount of He returned to Aberdeen University to material ultimately destined for the a post as Lecturer and to be in charge Australian National Insect Collection of the newly established Culterty Field or some of the state mus-eums. Station at Newburgh, a few miles north Finding that identification was less of Aberdeen. As Dir-ector of this rural than simple and dependent on a outpost of the Uni-versity's number of scattered publications he Department of Natural Hist-ory, as it resolved to write a unifying paper to was then known, George led the collate what was known about the fleas development of a burgeoning and of Australia. Furthermore. many new ongoing programme of ecological species were being disco-vered which research in the nearby Ythan estuary required description. The project was and Sands of Forvie National Nature to be completed after George returned Reserve. The statistics of this unit are to Scotland. impressive, with nearly 100 post- George was primarily an graduate students, many from over- ornithologist, although in Australia and seas, having gained higher degrees New Zealand he worked on mammals. there over 30 years and with many Being Director of Culterty left little postdoctoral research projects. Geo- time for research on fleas. He decided rge also carried out research for DSIR that completion of the Australian in New Zealand during 1968-1969. He project needed a research assistant was promoted successively to Senior and hired me [D.K.M.] for this post. I Lecturer, Professor, Regius Professor joined him in his laboratory in Culterty of Natural History and Head of in September of 1969, cutting my Department, and eventually became pulicologist's teeth, so to speak, on Dean of the Faculty of Sci-ence. some endemic stick-tight fleas. New Several fellowships and hon-ours were species were described by us or in awarded to George from 1970 to 1994, collaboration with other colleagues; and a D.Sc. in 1984. From the early George Holland, Bob Traub and Frans 1970's he became increasingly involved Smit. Our joint work culminated in the in a number of committees including publication of the Monograph of some from British government Australian Fleas in Australia in 1974, agencies too numerous to list here. nearly twenty years after Geo-rge This work continued until his untimely conceived the idea. death from a stroke in Copenhagen. During this period Dr. Miriam George developed an interest in Rothschild suggested that I might fleas while a student at Aberdeen and contribute to the Illustrated Catal-ogue began publishing papers in 1950. of the Rothschild Collection of Fleas However, it was his work in Aust-ralia with a volume on the Pygiop-syllidae. that gave him his outstanding To enable this work to be carried out in opportunity to develop and utilize this the University Zoology Department interest. Working on indigenous (now renamed), George obtained a mammals in several parts of the research grant from the Science country brought him into contact with Research Council that enabled me to host animals and their fleas and also accept Dr. Rothschild's offer. By then with many other wildlife biolog-ists with he was much occupied with University
FLEA NEWS 584 1995 and outside commit-tee business, but retained his interest in fleas, utilising Fleas from Macquarie Island with a them for teaching part of a description of a new species of Parapsyllus Enderlein. Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. Ser. Biogeography course. The research B, 30:43-49 (1961). grant and my employment as a flea taxonomist ended on 31-December- Insects of Macquarie Island. Siphonaptera. 1977, but our last collabor-ative Pac. Insects 4: 972 (1962). project was a rewrite of the chapter on Records of some fleas collected in southern fleas in the second edition of the CSIRO Norway (Siphonaptera). Norsk Entomol. textbook The Insects of Australia, 1991. Tidjs. 12: 17-18 (1962). This proved to be his last publication on fleas. A new genus and species of flea from The projects with which Geo-rge Antarctica (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae). was associated resulted in the Pac. Insects 4: 895-903 (1962). With F.G.A.M. Smit. description of fourteen new species and subspecies and three new genera of Distribution and host relationships of fleas of fleas. One species was named after the Antarctic and Subantarctic. Proc. SCAR him. Following are the taxa that he Symp. Antarctic Biol. pp. 223-238 (1964). authored or co-authored. Siphonaptera (Fleas). In: I. Mackerras (CSIRO) (Ed.). The Insects of Australia. pp. Parapsyllus cardinis Dunnet 647-655. Melbourne University Press. (1970). Glaciopsyllus antarcticus Smit & Dunnet Mardon & Dunnet Echidnophaga calabyi Chaetopsylla trichosa trichosa, a new flea for Echidnophaga octotricha Mardon & Dunnet Britain. Entomologist 104: 284 (1971). Echidnophaga eyrei Mardon & Dunnet Xenopsylla australiaca Mardon & Dunnet Four new pulicid fleas (Siphonaptera) from Lycopsylla lasiorhini Mardon & Dunnet Australia. J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 10: 123- Wurunjerria warnekei Mardon & Dunnet 130. (1971). With D. K. Mardon. Pygiopsylla tunneyi Mardon & Dunnet Dunnet & Mardon Coorilla longictena Lycopsylla lasiorhini sp. n., a new species of Stephanocircus harrisoni Traub & Dunnet flea from Australia, with a redescription of the Traub & Dunnet Stephanocircus g. greeni genus Lycopsylla Rothschild (Siphon-aptera: Stephanocircus g. tasmanica T. & D. Pygiopsyllidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 10: Stephanocircus domrowi Traub & Dunnet 235-240 (1971). With D. K. Mardon.
Siphonaptera References Fleas. In: The New Australian Encyclo- published by G. M. Dunnet paedia. (Pagination not given.) (1972).
Fleas (Siphonaptera) from mammals in A new genus and species of flea from Victoria Aberdeenshire. Scot. Nat. 62: 42-49 (1950). (Siphonaptera: Pygiopsyllidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 11: 61-68 (1972). With D. K. Records of small mammals and their fleas Mardon from eastern North Tyrol, Austria. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 12, VIII: 385-389 (1955). A revision of the 'group A' species of Aust- ralian Pygiopsylla Rothschild, 1906 (Siphon- Records of small mammals and their fleas aptera: Pygiopsyllidae). J. Aust. Entomol. from Reinosa, Santander, Spain. Ann. Mag. Soc. 11: 69-77 (1972). With D. K. Mardon. Nat. Hist. Ser. 12, VIII: 445-448 (1955). Revision of the siphonapteran genus Steph- Annual and regional variation in the flea anocircus Skuse, 1893 (Stephanocircidae). populations of nests of the house-martin Aust. J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. 20: 41-128. (1973). Martula u. urbica (L.) in north-east Scotland With R. Traub. Entomol. Mon. Mag. 91: 161-167 (1955). With R. M. Allan.
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Coorilla longictena a new genusand species of Minnesota at Minneapolis-St. Paul. bat flea from New South Wales (Siphonap- His doctoral dissertation was titled tera: Ischnopsyllidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. Biological studies on the faunae of nests 12: 3-10 (1973). With D. K. Mardon. of birds and rodents in relation to A monograph of Australian fleas (Siphon- disease of animals and man. He also aptera). Aust. J. Zool. Suppl. Ser. 30: 1-273 pursued graduate and postdoct-orial (1974). With D. K. Mardon. studies at Stanford, Johns Hop-kins, Harvard and Duke Universities. As a Siphonaptera. In: The Insects of Australia. commissioned officer, first in the Supplement, 1974. Division of Entomology, CSIRO, Australia. p. 91 United States Public Health Ser-vice (USPHS) from 1941 to 1946, and later Fleas. In: The New Australian Encyclo- in the United States Army Res-erve paedia. (Pagination not given). (1976). from 1955 to 1961, Jellison served on the USPHS mission to the Yunnan Siphonaptera (Fleas). In: The Insects of -Burma railroad (1941-1942); was an Australia. 2nd. Ed. (CSIRO). pp. 705-716, Melbourne University Press. (1991). With D. United States Army Malaria Control K. Mardon. Officer in Assam, India (1942-1943); and served as a research associate with the United States Typhus Com- ❋❆❋❆❋❆❋ mission in Burma (1945); the Korean Hemorrhagic Fever Commission, Dr. Thomas Schwan of the Rocky United States Army, in Soeul, Korea Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, MT, (1953); and with the Pan-American recently informed me of the passing of Sanitary Bureau, Zoonosis Laborat- Dr. William Jellison, who was ory, Azul, Argentina (1960). In 1980 associated with that laboratory for he received an honorary D.Sc. from most of his professional career. Fol- Montana State University, and was lowing is an obituary based upon a awarded the Hoogstraal Award in 1991 short biography which I prepared a few by the American Committee of Medical years back for inclusion in A Catalogue Entomologists of the Amer-ican of Siphonaptera of North America north Society of Tropical Medicine & of Mexico. It has been slightly modified Hygiene. in collaboration with Dr. Robert Traub. Jellison was an internationally renown parasitologist and many of his William Livingston Jellison musing on epidemiology, evolut-ion and 28-January-1906 * 7-November-1995 biogeography have since been shown to be remarkably sagacious. He was William L. Jellison was born in active in a number of profess-ional Kalispel, Flathead County, Montana. societies and authored or co-authored He received the B.S. from the Univer- in excess of 150 scientific papers, three sity of Montana, Bozeman, in 1929, books and several bull-etins dealing and took a position as Bacteriologist on with arthropods of med-ical importance the staff of the United States Public and/or the zoonoses transmitted by Health Service, Rocky Mountain Lab- them. Although he authored or co- oratory, at Hamilton, Montana. In authored four flea taxa, his most 1931 his title was changed to Parasit- important contribut-ions to our ologist, a title he retained until his knowledge of the North American flea retirement in 1960. He earned the fauna were the Index-es to the M.S. in 1934 and the Ph.D. degree in Literature of Siphonaptera of North 1940, both from the University of
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America, a co-authored series Siphonaptera: notes on two California species. published in 1942, 1953 and 1967. Publ. Hlth Reps 55: 489-492 (1940). Jellison and his wife Gretchen, Fleas of eastern United States by Irving Fox who predeceased him by a few mon- (a review). J. Parasitol. 26: 335-336. (1940). ths, lived in retirement in Hamilton, Montana, just a few blocks from the Biological studies on the faunae of nests of Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Mrs. birds and rodents in relation to disease of Jellison was a talented artist and animals and man. Summaries of Ph.D. Theses, Vol. III, University of Minnesota. assisted her husband by illustrationg (Not published elsewhere.) (1940). some of his many publications. Following are the four flea taxa Siphonaptera: the genera Amphalius and described by him. Ctenophyllus in North America. Publ. Hlth Reps 56: 2341-2349 (1941). Thrassis pandorae Jellison Opisocrostis tuberculatus cynomuris Jellison Index to the literature of Siphonaptera of Conorhinopsylla nidicola Jellison North America. Natl Inst. Hlth Bull. 178: 1- Mioctenopsylla traubi Holland & Jellison 193 (1942). With N.E. Good. Siphonaptera: species and host list of Siphonaptera References Montana fleas. Miscl. Publ. #2, Montana Published by W. L. Jellison State Board of Entomology. 22 pp. (1943). With G.M. Kohls & H.B. Mills. Parasites of porcupines of the genus Erethizon (Rodentia) Trans. Am. Micr. Soc. 52: 42-47 Siphonaptera: the genus Oropsylla in North (1933). America. J. Parasitol. 31: 83-97 (1945).
Faunae of nests of the magpie and crow in Siphonaptera: a species of Conorhinopsylla western Montana. Canad. Entomol. 65: 26- from Kansas. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 18: 31 (1933). With C. B. Philip. 109-111. (1945).
Distribution and hosts of the human flea, Siphonaptera: host distribution of the genus Pulex irritans L., in Montana and other Opisocrostis Jordan. Trans. Am. Micr. Soc. western states. Publ. Hlth Rep.s 51: 842-844 66: 64-69 (1947). (1936). With G. M. Kohls. Ectoparasites and other arthropods occuring A new species of Thrassis (Siphonaptera). in Texas bat caves. Natl Speleological Soc. Publ. Hlth Reps 52: 726-729 (1937). Bull. 10: 116-117. (1948).
Sylvatic plague in Montana. J. Parasitol. 23: The Siphonaptera of Canada by G.P. Holland 535 (1937). With R.R. Parker & G.E. Davis. (a review). Canad. Field. Nat. 64: 156-157 (1950). Sylvatic Plague: Studies of predatory and scavenger birds in relation to its epidemiol- The Siphonaptera of Canada by G.P. Holland ogy. Publ. Hlth Reps 54: 792-798 (1939). (a review). Trans. Am. Micr. Soc. 49: 422-423 (1950). Notes on the fleas of prairie dogs with the descri-ption of a new subspecies. Publ. Hlth On Mioctenopsylla Rothschild, a genus of Reps 54: 840-844 (1939). Siphonaptera (Ceratophyllidae), with desc- ription of a new species. Canad. Entomol. 84: Opisodasys Jordan, 1933, a genus of Siphon- 374-379 (1952). With G.P. Holland. aptera. J. Parasitol. 25: 413-420 (1939). Index of the literature of Siphonaptera of Siphonaptera: a list of Alaskan fleas. Publ. North America. Supplement No. 1. 246 pp. Hlth Reps 54: 2020-2023 (1939). With G.M. Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, MT Kohls. (mimeographed). (1953). With B. Locker & R. Bacon.
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flea biology, habits and control. It is A synopsis of North American fleas, north of also said to be user friendly. It includes Mexico, and notice of supplementary index. J. the following features: Keyboard and/or Parasitol. 39: 610-618 (1953). With B. Locker & R. Bacon. mouse driven; detailed color graphics and photographs, including printing Fleas and Disease. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 4: capability. 389-414 (1959). System Requirements A 8088 (XT), 80386 or 80486 MS-DOS Index of the literature of Siphonaptera of North America. Supplement No. 1. 246 pp. (versions 3.1 or higher) or MS-DOS or Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, MT IBM compatible computer with at (mimeographed). (microfisch edition) (1960). least 640KB of RAM installed and With B. Locker & R. Bacon. 3.8MB of storage on a hard drive and VGA monitor and card. Printing Fleas from Scandinavia and Finland. Ent- requires a laser jet printer. Order No. omologist 95: 131-133. (1962). 3005 on 3.5" disk, No. 3006 on 5.25" Parasites of Alaskan vertebrates: host- disk. Both versions are $60.00 plus parasite index. University of Oklahoma shipping and handling. Research Institute Publication. 73 pp. They also handle a number of (1964). Books, Business Aids, Pamphlets, Index to the literature of Siphonaptera of Slides and Videos, as well as other North America. Supplement No. 2. 406 pp. Computer Programs. Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, MT Orders or inquiries should be (mimeographed). (1967). With L. Glesne. directed to: N.P.C.A. Resource Center Fleas of Montana. Montana Agricultural 8100 Oak Street Experiment Station Research Report No. 29. 79 pp. (1973). With C.M. Senger. Dunn Loring, VA 22027 (800) 678 6722 Tularemia in North America 1930-1974. Fax (703) 573 4116 University of Montana Foundation, Missoula, MT. 276 pp. (Siphonaptera, pp 80-82). ❈❏❈❏❈❏❈ (1974).
Fleas of western North America except SIPHONAPTERA LITERATURE Montana in the Rocky Mountain Laboratory collection. In: H.C. Taylor & J. Clark (Eds.) Although it may not be obvious from Papers in honor of Jerry Flora. Western the titles, citations included here per- Washington State College, Bellingham, WA tain to fleas and the zoonoses assoc- pp. 55-136. (1976). With C.M. Senger. iated with them. Additional inform- ❂❆❂❆❂❆❂ ation is available upon request.
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The National Pest Control Associa- Zlotorzycka, J. Catalogue of the Pol- tion, Inc. recently announced the ish parasitic fauna. Part IV. Bird release of a computer based "Flea Parasites. Fascicle 3. Parasitic Arth- Tutorial". Developed by Thomas R. ropods. (PNW) Polish Scientific Publ- Fasulo and Philip G. Koehler, it is a self- ishers. 366 pp. training program on fleas. It is an easy 1991 to use instructional method for flea (List 10) identification (?) as well as dealing with
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CAO Li-ping & HE Ling. Studies on Siphonaptera). Miscellanea Zoolog-ica esterase isoenzymes of three species of Hungarica 7: 9-14. flea. Chinese Journal of Parasitol-ogy & Parasitic Diseases 9(3): 209-212. Medvedev, S.G. Structure of the aed- eagus in fleas. (Siphonaptera). I. Jani, B.M., R.G. Jani, A.M. Thaker & Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 71(3): B.L. Avsatthi. A trial with Butox 510-521. against canine ectoparasites. Jour-nal of Veterinary Parasitology 5(2): 136- Nascimento, R.A. & T.H.A. Arigony. 138. Notes on Tungidae. I. New data on the biology and morphology of Tunga MA Li-Ming et al. A report of wild rat penetrans (L., 1758) Jarocki, 1838 flea biting man: two cases. Chin-ese (Siphonaptera - Tungidae). Revista Journal of Parasitology & Para-sitic Brasileira de Zoologia (1990) 7(1-2): Diseases 9(1): 70. 147-154.
WU Wen-Jer, SHYU Meng-Haur & Slacek, B. Diagnosis of flea allergy HSU Tung-Ching. Ecology and cont- dermatitis in dogs and cats. Thesis, rol of cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis Tierartzliche Hochschule Hannover, (Bouché) Chinese Journal of Entom- Hannover, Germany. 139 pp. ology. Special Publication No. 6: 49-65. WANG Shan-Qing, WU Hou-Yong, 1992 (List 8) KONG Wei-Wei & CAO Jun-Tian. Observation on the chorion structure of Benedictow, O. J. Plague in the late fleas by scanning electron micro-scopy. medieval nordic countries. Epidem- Chinese Journal of Parasitic Disease iological studies. Middelalderforlaget Control 5(4): 291. CGS A/S, Oslo, Norway. 274 pp. + 1 Appendix and Bibliography 1993 (List 6)
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Bezerra, S.M.C. Tungiasis - an un- Gibson, M.D., C.R. Young, M.T. usual case of severe infestation. Omran, K. Palma, J.F. Edwards & International Journal of Dermatology J.A. Rawlings. Lime disease in an 33(10): 725. experimental cat model. In: Lyme borreliosis. J.S. Axford & D.H.E. Rees Canestri Trotti, G. & S. Giannetto. (Eds.) Plenum Publishing Corp. pp. Scanning electron microscopy of 187-199. Archaeopsylla erinacei erinacei. In: Atti XVIII Congresso Nazionale Soc- Giannetto, S., L. Nobile, A. Virga & ietà Italiana di Parassitologia, Ozza-no G. Canestri Trotti. Scanning electron Emilia, 22-24 guigno 1994. Paras- microscopy of Leptopsylla segnis sitologia (Roma) 36 (Supplemento 1): (Schoenherr, 1811) (Insecta: Aphan- 27. iptera). In: Atti XVIII Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Paras- CAO Li-Ping & HE Lin. Studies of sitologia, Ozzano Emilia, 22-24 guigno the chromosome karyotypes and C- 1994. Parassitologia (Roma) 36 band-ing pattern in four species of (Supplemento 1): 71. fleas. Hereditas (Beijing) 16(4): 19-23. Jeffery, J., P. Oothuman, A. Caster, P.T., G.A. Heidt & K.D. Sinniah, V.J. Bharat, S. Stone. Faunal use of nest boxes in the Subramaniam, S Murugesu & S. Ochita Mountains of central Arkan- Paramasvaran. Echidnophaga sas. The Southwestern Naturalist 39: gallinacea (West-wood, 1875) 380-382. (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) from turkey - a new record for penin-sular Malaysia. Chadee, D.D. Distribution patterns of Tropical Biomed-icine 11(1): 115-116. Tunga penetrans within a commun-ity in Trinidad, West Indies. Journal of Kobayashi, Y., Y. Ono, T. Okano & Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 97(3): K. Buie. Insecticide susceptibility of 167-170. the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis (Bou- ché). Japanese Journal of Sanitary Chaniotis, B., A. Psarulaki, G. Chal- Zoology 45(2): 121-128. iotis, G. Garzalo Garcia, T. Gozad- inos & Y. Tselentis. Transmission Kobayashi Y., Y. Ono, Y. Yoshioka, cycle of murine typhus in Greece. T. Okano & K. Buei. Effect of juvenile Annals of Tropical Medicine and hormone analogues, pyriproxyfen and Parasitology 88(6): 645-647. methoprene against the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché). Jap- Chhabra R.C. & N. Donora. Ecto- anese Journal of Sanitary Zoology parasites of poultry in Zimbabwe and 45(3): 245-251. their control. Zimbabwe Veterinary Journal 25(1): 26 ... 32. Kumar, A., B.S. Rawat, A.K. Saxina & G.P. Agarwal. Prevalence of ecto- Franc, M. Puces et méthodes de lutte. parasites on goats in Dehradun (India). Revue Scientifique et Techni-que - Applied Parasitology 35(4): 227-236.
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