0. savignyi 



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Nymphs : There are at least two nymphal stages, if not more. In 

 the nymphal stage preceding maturity, there is a great resemblance 

 to the adult and there is a rudiment of the sexual aperture. 

 Smaller nymphs, belonging to an earlier stage, are also encountered 

 which show no trace of a sexual aperture. 



Fig. 64. 0. savignyi. Legs IV (A), III (B), I (C), x 17 (Nn. 1896, fig. 32). 



Fig. 65. 0. savignyi. Larva recently emerged from the egg, dorsum and venter. 

 After Christophers (1906, p. 51, about 1 mm. I., same size as the egg). 



Larvae (Fig. 65) : These issue from the egg as in other Ixodoidea, 

 0. savignyi differing from 0. moubata (q.v.) in this respect, according to 

 Christophers (1906, p. 51), in India. This author informs us (1908) that 



