404 
Messrs Nuttall and Warburton, 
19) (0‘9 mm. I .) as in £ but with base shorter and broader; with 
circular porose areas. Legs: coxae as in , but weaker. 
Origin. Description based on 2 and 6 ? collected in 
North Nyassa, British Central Africa, by Dr Old, 1907 ; 1 £ 
(the larger) from Benguella, W. Africa, collected by Dr F. C. 
Wellman, 1907. Hosts not stated. (Preserved in 4 °/ 0 formalin, 
transferred to spirit.) 
Note. — Digit of $ (Fig. 20) 145 g long ; dorsal process broadening out- 
wardly into two conical teeth, external article bidentate. 
Near R. capensis. 
Male, L. 2 - 8, W. 18 mm. (small, unfed) to L. 43, W. 2 '6 mm. 
(large, gorged). Body (Fig. 21 gorged) narrow anteriorly widening 
greatly to level of spiracles, then tapering to blunt caudal pro- 
tuberance involving three central festoons. Scutum glossy, bluntly 
rounded behind, many shallow punctations, especially on scapulae, 
Fig. 20. ? digit, 145 g l. 
Rhipicephalus masseyi n. sp. 
Figures 21 — 26. 
A 
B 
Fig. 21. <? , A dorsal and B ventral aspects. 
