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On a new genus of Ixodoideci. 
numerous, medium ; eyes pale, flat. Venter pale ; spiracles (Fig. 40) 
ear-shaped, whitish, with dark brown border ; no plaques ; chestnut 
patches on the festoons ; sexual orifice between coxae II ; anal ring 
dark brown, a white semicircular area between it and the anal 
groove. Capitulum (Fig. 38) relatively short (1 to 11 mm. 1 .) ; base 
Fig. 38. <f capitulum, A dorsal, B ventral aspects. 
broader than long dorsally with strong blunt cornua ; palps short, 
article 1 very broad ventrally, article 2 projecting outwardly near 
the middle and with a strong retrograde process dorsally at its inner 
angle ; hypostome spatulate, dentition 3|3, about six teeth per file. 
Legs chestnut, the articles (except tarsi) annulated with white 
distally ; coxa I (Fig. 37 B ) with two subequal blunt spurs near 
together; coxae II — IV with small blunt spurs near the middle 
of the posterior border; tarsi with two terminal spurs. 
