A SYNOPSIS OF AUSTRALIAN ACAKINA — RAINi?0\V. 165 



Family IXODID^. 

 Tribus A : RHIPICEPHAL^E. 



Genus H.EMAPHYSALIS, Koch. 

 = Rhipisfoma, Koch ; Gonixodes, Duges ; Opistodon, Canestrini. 



H.EMAPHYSALIS PAPUANA, Thov. 



llcemaphyscdis pap^iana., Tlior., Ann. del Mus. civ. di 8t. Nat. 



di Genova, xviii., 1882, p. 62, pi. vi., f. 40-45. 

 Hcemaphysalis papuana, Neum., Mem. Soc. Zool. France, x., 1897, 



p. 336, 337. 



Host. — Not known. Canestrini found two examples, 1 (J 1 9, 

 attached to a strip of skin from some mammal, in cotton which 

 had been used for packing some insects and reptiles from Aus- 

 tralia (Queensland). 



Hah. — New Guinea (Ramoi), and Queensland. 



HiEMAPHYSALIS LEACHI, Aud. 



Hcemajihysalis leachi, Aud., Description de I'Egypte, 2nd ed., 



xxii., 1827; Zoologie, Exjjlic. des planches, p. 428. 

 Rhipistoma leachi, C. L. Koch, Archiv f iir Naturgeschiche, (1), x., 



1844, p, 239. 

 Rhipistoma ellipticum, C L. Koch, loc. cit. 

 Rhipicephalus ellipticus, C. L. Koch, Uebersicht des Arachniden 



systems, iv., 1847, p. 135, pi. xxx., fig. 111. 

 Rhipidosfoma leachi, Karsch, Monatsbericht K. Akad. Wis. 



Berlin, 1878, p. 337. 

 Ha/maphysalis leachi, Neum., Mem. Soc. Zool. France, x., 1897, p. 



347-350, f. 13-15 , loc. cit., xiv., 1901, p. 263. 

 Ildmaphysalis leachi, Frogg., N S.W. Agric. Gaz., xi., 1900, p. 



542. 



Hosts. — In Eastern Ethiopia, Felis jKirdus, Linn, (leopard) ; 

 cattle and horses at Grafton and Wallangra, N.S.W. 



Hah. — Widely distributed over the African continent ; 

 Narrabri and Kempsey, N. 8. Wales (introduced). 



H.EMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS, Xeum. 



Ha^maphysalis longicor'nis, Neum., Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xiv., 

 1901, p. 261, f. 2. 



Hosfs.^C'AtWe. 



Hah. — Nari-abri and Kempsey, N. S. Wales. 



