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Mr A. E. Shipley has brought us o s and larvae for identification which 

 were found on grouse 1 . [Mr W. Evans (i. 1907, p. 35) records this tick 

 on cows, near Callander, mostly attached to udders and adjacent parts 

 of legs (sexes in copula, 21 September) ; o s found on head of red-deer 



Fig. 147. /. ricinus larva : venter and dorsum, x 65. Specimen from Co. Cavan. 

 (N. 929. Nuttall, 1908, Fig. 6, G. H.F.N, del.). 



Fig. 148. I. ricinus larva : capitulum in dorsal and ventral aspects, x 200. Specimen 

 from Co. Cavan. (N. 929. Original, G. H. F. N. del.). 



1 Neumann, 1901, p. 282, states that ricinus larvae have been found on the martin, but 

 does not state the locality. 



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