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GEORGE H. F. NUTTALL. 



Genus 4. Rhipicentor. 



Generic characters : Inornate, with eyes and festoons, with short palps, basis capitnli 

 hexagonal dorsaUy and having jprominent lateral angles. Coxa. I. bifid. The male 

 resembles Dermacentor ventrally and Rhipicephalus dorsally. 



Of the two species belonging to this genus one has been found in the Congo : — 



(1) Rhipicentor bicornis, Nuttall and Warburton, 1908. The species is best 

 described by the reference to our ilkistrations (figs. 16 and 17). 







Fig. 16. BMjpicentor hicornis, Nuttall and Warburton, 1908, ^ and $ ; dorsal 



aspects (N. & AV. 1908). 







Cinca. -Z" 

 ., -ZT" 



/^' 



Fig, 17. Bhipicentor bicornis Nuttall and Warburton 1908, 

 J : ventral aspect (Nuttall^ 1908). 



