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Genus Ixodes 



bidentate, like that of a Rhipicephalus or Hyalomma, protruding in 

 front of the body and visible dorsally ; coxae II-IV with a slight 

 external spur and a blade-like internal edge ; all the coxae close 

 together and occupying little more than the anterior third of the 

 body-length; tarsi long and tapering, only slightly gibbous dorsally. 

 Legs 4 extend beyond the posterior end of the body by their two distal 

 articles. 



Fig. 196. I. gigas & : dorsum and venter. (C. Warburton, 1910, Figs. 1 and 2.) 

 The anal grooves are somewhat too divergent in the figure. 



Female : unknown. 



Described from two specimens in the India Museum, Calcutta 

 (No. £fp and No.?), taken at Punkabani, Darjiling District, E. Himalayas 

 (no host recorded). 



This fine species — the largest male Ixodes known — may very likely 

 prove to be the £ of Ixodes acutitarsus (Karsch, 1880), but it is unsafe 

 at present to attribute it to that species. Its coxal armature is unique 

 in this genus. 



25. IXODES RUBICUNDUS Neumann, 1904. 



Figs. 197 (Nn.) and 198 (original). 



Jiit. and Icon. : Neumann, 1904, pp. 460-462, Fig. 2 (reproduced). 



Howard, C. W., vm. 1908, p. 97, PL IV, Fig. I (a, b), translation from Neumann 

 and copy of his figure. 



Male (Fig. 197) : Body 2'3 mm. long (capitulum included), contour 

 oval, narrower anteriorly, 1*2 mm. broad toward the posterior third, 



