I. coxaefurcatus 271 



adanal plates with their sides curved and parallel. Spiracles large, 

 oval, with long axis directed forward and macula eccentric. Capitulum 

 with dorsal base broader than long, posterior border convex ; a median 

 broad, depressed, roughly circular rugose area. Hypostome with sharp 

 point, dentition 2 | 2, with 7 teeth per file. Palps short and broad. 

 Legs of medium length ; coxae bearing long hairs ; coxa I with a 

 short, stout spur at both posterior angles ; coxae II-IV with a similar 

 flattened spur at the postero-external angle. Tarsi tapering gradually. 

 Colour : scutum, shields and legs dark maroon-brown, the venter and 

 the marginal fold light maroon. 



Female : unknown. 



Our description is based on an examination of the type, a dried, 

 pinned, and somewhat mutilated and shrunken specimen from a virgin 

 forest, Sierra Geral, Brazil 1 (Hensel coll., Berlin Mus.). 



51. IXODES VESPERTILIONIS Koch, 1844. 



Figs. 272-282 (Figs. 272, 273, 277, 280, 281 original). See also 

 PI. VI, Figs. 1 and 2 (?s). 



Synonymy : Ixodes vespertilionis Koch, 1844, H. 37, Fig. 9 ( $ ) ; 1844, p. 2.32, listed ; 



1847, p. 21. 

 Ixodes flavipes Koch, 1844, H. 39, Fig. 2 (? ?); 1844, p. 232, listed; 1847, p. 21. 

 Ixodes troglodytes Schmidt, 1853 {vide Frauenfekl, 1853, p. 57) ((J). 

 Eschatocephalus gracilipes Frauenfeld, 1853, p. 57, PI. ( <J : dorsum, venter, capit- 

 ulum ; $ : dorsum and capitulum. Sketchy, but resembling I. vespertilionis) ; 



1857, PI. II ( ? ). 

 Haemalastor gracilipes Frauenfeld, 1854, p. 23, PL Figs. 4, 6 (?). 

 Sarconissus flavipes Kolenati, 1856, p. 21, 1857, p. 21, PI. I, " <} ," immature 



stages. See Neumann, vm. 1910, p. 191. 

 Sarconissus hispidulus Kolenati, 1856, p. 21 ( $ ). 

 Sarconissus brevipes Kolenati, 1856, p. 21 ( $ ). 



Sarconissus kochi Kolenati, 1856, p. 21 (?) ; 1860, p. 573, PI. II, Fig. 4 ( <$ ). 

 Sarconissus flavidus Kolenati, 1856, p. 21 ( ? ). 

 Sarconissus exaratus Kolenati, 1856, p. 22; 1860, p. 757, PI. I, Fig. 2 (Neumann 



det. vm. 1910, p. 191). 

 Haemalastor gracilipes (Frauenfeld) Kolenati, 1860, p. 573. Neumann, det. vm. 



1910, p. 191. 

 Eschatocephalus frauenfeldi'L. Koch, 1872, p. 26, PI. II, Figs. 29-32 (<J); 1877, 



p. 150. 



1 Neumann erroneously states that the specimen came from Siwa, Egypt. 



