166 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Genus Rhipicephalus, Koch. 



r= Acarus (in part), Linn. ; Ixodes (in part), Latr. ; Phauloixodes 

 Berl. ; Boophilus, Cui't. 



Rhipicephalus annulatus, >Sai/. 



Rhipicephalus annulatus Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., ii. 



1821, p. 75. 

 Hoimaphysalis rosea, Koch, Archiv. f. Naturgesch, (1), x., 1844 



p. 237 ; Uebersicht des Arachnidensystems, iv , 1847, p. 121 



pi. xxvi., fig. 95 $, fig. 97 9. 

 Ixodes bonis, Riley, In Rep. on Diseases of Cattle by Gamgee, 



U.S. Dept. Agric, Special Rep., 1869. 

 Ixodes bovis, Fuller, Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., vii., 1896, p. 765, 



pis. i.-iv., text figs. 

 Lwdes identatus, Gamgee, Rep. Diseases of Cattle, U.S. Dept. 



Agric, Special Rep., 1869. 

 Ixodes diujesii, Megnin, Les Parasites et les Maladies Parasitaircs, 



Paris, 1880. 

 Ilcemaphysalis microjyola, Canest., Atti. della Soc. Veneto Trentina 



Sci. nat, xi , fasc. 1, 1887, p. 104, pi. ix., f. 3 and 5. 

 Boophilus bovis. Curt., y^sishington Biolog. Soc, 1890; loc. cit., 



1891 ; Journ. Compar Med. and Vet. Archives, 1892, p. 1 ; 



Bull.Texas Agric Exper.Sta, No 24, 1892; N.S.W. Agric. 



Gaz. (reprint), vii., 1896, p. 454, pis. 1-3. 

 Boophilus (Ixodes) bovis. Fuller, N.S.W. Agric. Gaz., vii., 1896, 



p. 451, two text figs. 

 Rhipicephalus calcai-atus, Birula, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. 



Petersbourg, No. 4, 1895, p. 361, pi. ii., f. 10-20. 

 Rhipicephalus an^ndatus, Rainb., Rec. Aust. Mus., iii., 1899, p. 



131. 

 Rhipicephalus anmdatus, Frogg., N.S.W. Agric Gaz., xi., 1900, 



p. 542. 

 Rhipicephalus annularis, Neum., Mem. Soc. Zool. France, x., 



1897, p. 407, f. 37-42; loc. cit., xiv., 1901, p. 276. 



Jlosts. — Tlie hosts of this, now cosmopolitan, species are as 

 follows : — In Texas, Maryland, Washington, Chicago, Baltimore, 

 Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas, New Mexico and Honduras : 

 cattle ; Cuba : cattle and dogs ; Jamaica : cattle ; Florida : Deer 

 (Cariacus vii-yinianus, Bodd.) ; Guadoloupe, where it is known 

 as the " Creole Tick : cattle ; Paraguay : under the bark of trees ; 

 Timor: " Sambar " deer (^i?ws« equinus, Ciivier) ; Caucasus and 

 Transcaucasus of Asia, Singapore : cattle ; Algiers and Morocco : 

 cattle ; Bai'bary and Touaiick : sheep. 



Hab. — Cosmopolitan. 



