Puce eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce. Puce Puce is a dark red or purple brown color, a brownish purple or a "dark reddish brown." "Puce" is the French word for "flea". The color is said to be the color of bloodstains on linen or bedsheets, even after being laundered, from a flea's droppings, or after a flea has been crushed. The "Oxford English Dictionary" ("OED") dates the first English use of "puce" as a color to 1778. The name comes from the French word "puce", or flea, which comes from the Latin words for flea, "pulicem" or "pulex". According
Hedgehog flea Hedgehog flea The hedgehog flea ("Archaeopsylla erinacei") is a flea species which, as indicated by its common name, is an external parasite specifically adapted to living with the European hedgehog and the North African hedgehog, but it has also been found on other animals. Named in 1835 by Peter Friedrich Bouché, "A. erinacei" is a common flea "found on every hedgehog, usually in large numbers". A typical number of fleas on a hedgehog is about a hundred, but up to a thousand have been reported on sick animals. The flea is occasionally found also on dogs and cats, but only