414 
Messrs Nuttall and Warburton, 
Note. — Digit (Fig. 39) 165 p. long, very broad at dorsal process which pro- 
trudes transversely as a single dorsally-ridged tooth, external article bidentate 
with very large basal and small distal tooth. Spiracle - 55 mm. long. 
Colour-, placed in spirit (70°/ o ) for 48 hours the white markings turned a 
clean coppery tint and the general coloration became tortoise-shell-like, 
the chestnut coloured background being marked by dark blackish brown 
streaks along the antero-lateral margins, bordering the festoons and along 
the median line, with irregular dark lines running from the centre to the 
vicinity of festoons 4, 5. 
Female, unknown. 
Origin. Description based on 5 / from Tamandua tetra- 
dactyla, S. America. (Zool. Society’s Gardens, London, 1905. 
Dry specimens.) 
Male, L. 4, W. 32 mm. Body (Fig. 41) dark brown, very 
highly chitinized. Scutum covering the whole dorsum, deeply 
emarginate, a pseudoscutum well-marked by a furrow ; a second 
furrow nearly parallel with this across the middle; from the 
posterior angles of this further furrows running towards the 
Hyalomma monstrosum n. sp. 
Figures 41 — 45. 
A 
B 
Fig. 41. c? , A scutum, B ventral aspect. 
Fig. 42. £ spiracle, ‘8 mm. 1. 
