H. concinna 457 



condemned species q.v.) Neumann, 1905, p. 239, renamed the specimens H. 

 concinna var. kochi. The specimens were (a) 6 ? from the Amm- River, Eastern 

 Siberia, coll. Dickman, 28, vi. 1899 (Hamburg Mus.) ; (i) 3 $ from Japan, coll. 

 Hilgendorf (Berlin Mus.); (c) 2 ? from dog. Saga, Japan, coll. Yamaguchi; {d)'2 5 

 from Saigon, Cochin China, coll. Harmand (Paris Mus.). 



Through the courtesy of the Museum authorities in Hamburg, Berlin and Paris, 

 we have been able to study the types of (a), (6) and (<^), ten specimens having been 

 received from Hamburgh, and one each from Berlin and Paris. The specimens 

 conform to H. concinna $ , but we do not find the suggested varietal characters at all 

 constant in these specimens — and in themselves they are exceedingly slight. More- 

 over, it appeal's to us very unsafe to attribute the females to concinna at all in the 

 absence of males, more especially when the specimens are extra-European. The 

 $ of H. concinna has no very salient characteristics, and though the ticks in 

 question bear a strong general resemblance to our European specimens they are also 

 like other species, e.g. H. papuana. If the corresponding ,^8 should turn out to 

 possess cheliform palps the attribution to H. concinna would be justified, but if 

 this be not the case we do not think that the similarity of the $ s would be 

 sufficient ground to maintain this form as a variety of that species. 



Geographical Distribution. 



There is no trustworthy evidence of H. concinna having been found 

 outside Europe, for no (/ has been recorded as accompanying the 

 supposed $s from other parts of the world. The tick occurs in 

 Germany ; there is a $ in the Berlin Museum, collected in Brunswick, 

 and a (/ of German origin. Neumann records 4 (/s from deer in 

 Poland. The bulk of the specimens collected comes from France ; 

 thus, in the north, Megnin (1880, p. 132) collected only cfs in the 

 Forest of Fontainebleau. We are indebted to Dr E. Brumpt, of Paris, 

 for the opportunity of examining many specimens of fed and unfed 

 adults, m'mphs and larvae found by him on sixteen occasions on deer 

 at Fontainebleau (S. et M.), Chantilly and Compiegne (Dept. Oise), 

 and the Dept. Indre ; and twice (o and L) on Itedgehogs at Chantilly; 

 on nine occasions H. concinna was found with H. inermis on deer, and 

 once with H. cinnabarina var. punctata". Dr Brumpt raised H. concinna 

 successfully upon the dog and Jiedgehog in the laboratory, thus giving 

 us an opportunity of publishing the first description of the immature 

 stages. He has kindly allowed us to retain some of his specimens 

 (N. 1529, 2754, 2755, 2760, 2761, 2778). Neumann (1897) who has 

 presented us with a (/ and $ (N. 1075), also records concinna from 



^ We are much indebted to the Hamburg Museum for the gift of two of these specimens 

 (N. 1987). 



2 See Table of Brumpt's observations under Biology, p. 544. 



