192 Genus Ixodes 



We possess, or have examined, females from France : (N. 523) from 

 Passer montanus, St Gdnis de Malgoire (Gard), xi. 1908 (A. Hugues 

 coll.; presented by Hon. N. C. Rothschild); England: (N. 224) from owl, 

 Cambridge, 1904 (G. S. Graham-Smith) ; California : (N. 279 1 ) from 

 Cyancitta stelleri frontalis, XII. 1895 (R. C. Snodgrass) ; (N. 280 1 ) from 

 thrush, Palo Alto, XI. 1895 ; (N. 282) from Piranga ludoviciana Sunol, 

 V. 1896 ; (N. 283) from Habia melanocephala Sunol, v. 1896 ; from " a 

 bird 1 ," and from Carpidacus sp., Palo Alto, V. 1891 (Snodgrass coll., now 

 in Leland Stanford University coll.). We are indebted to Professor 

 V. L. Kellogg for the specimens from California. 



A specimen ( $ ) has recently reached us from Africa, having been 

 found on a dove (Haplopelia johnstoni Shelly) at Mlange Mountain, 

 Nyasaland (5500 ft.), v. 1910, by S. A. Neave (No. 150, Ent. 

 Committee ; determined by us). 



Banks (1908) records 2 $s from a tufted tit, Raleigh, North Carolina 

 (Brimley coll.) ; 1 $ from a hermit thrush, Baltimore, Maryland (Hassall 

 coll.) " this being the specimen named by Neumann Ixodes frontalis " ; 

 1 $ from a " chipping bird" probably at Amherst, Mass. 



Note: Neumann (1899) describes a form which he regards as a 

 variety, as follows, the same being a young % specimen found at Toulouse 

 on Ramphocelus coccineus, from Santa Fe de Bogota (Lacomme coll.) : 

 Body 5x3 mm. (capitulum included), reddish brown. Scutum oval, 

 longer (16 mm.) than broad, darker reddish brown, glossy, with sides 

 rounded, posterior angle broad; cervical grooves broad, shallow, only 

 attaining one-half the length ; lateral grooves indicated by their external 

 prominence; slightly curved, attaining the limits of the posterior angle. 

 Punctations large, very numerous, only absent in front between the 

 cervical grooves. Surfaces finely shagreened, the dorsal glabrous, the 

 ventral bearing a few white hairs. Spiracles whitish, in front of half 

 the body-length. Capitulum 1 mm. long. (Digit 145 ft long.) The rest 

 as in the type. 



19. IXODES CAVIPALPUS Nutt. and Warb. 1907. 



Figs. 184-180. 

 Lit. and Icon. : Nuttoll and Warburton, 1907, p. 396, Figs. 1-5 (reproduced). 

 1 Described by us as /. kellogyi. 



