50 MR. 0. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, 



Bhipicephalus marmoreus, sp. n. (Plate III. figs. 1-1 d.) 



<5 . Colour. Capitulum yellowish brown ; dorsal surface of body 

 yellowish white, with five large deep red-brown patches, one on 

 each side extending backwards from the cervical groove, one on 

 each side longitudinal and sending off towards the middle line a 

 broad transverse bar, and a large posterior median patch with 

 convex hinder border and anterior border produced forwards in the 

 middle line, also a narrow brown baud running round the margin 

 of the dorsal scute; legs yellowish brown, with a broad longi- 

 tudinal white band on the upperside of the femora, patellae, and 

 tibiae ; ventral surface of body whitish, with chitiuous sclerites 

 deep brown like the legs. 



Posterior border of capitulum evenly coucave, the angles 

 moderately produced ; lateral margins moderately, not strongly 

 diverging, the anterior border only a little wider than the posterior. 



Dorsal plate almost entirely covering the sides of the body, 

 leaving merely a narrow marginal membranous rim ; cervical 

 grooves distinct, short; marginal groove represented by a series 

 of coarse punctures ; three posterior punctured grooves on the 

 posterior dark patch : for the rest the dorsal plate is without 

 grooves but is pitted with coarse scattered piuictures ; the posterior 

 rim divided by short sulci into eleven festoons. A^entral area with 

 a single long piriform adanal plate, which is narrowed in front 

 and extends backwards almost to the posterior coxa?; its external 

 border slightly convex, internal border concave in the middle, 

 convex in the anterior and posterior third, posterior border oblique 

 and ending internally in a rounded rectangular prominence; a 

 single small median sclerite on the postanal membranous area. 

 Coxa; of anterior legs produced into two strong spiuiform pro- 

 cesses ; of 2nd to 4th with a single distal spiniform process on the 

 posterior side. 1 



Total length of dorsal plate 3*8 mm. 



Loc. Bularli in West tSomaliland (May 1895). 



A single specimen ( c? type) in British Museum. 



Bhipicephalus armatus, sp. n. (Plate III. figs. 2-2/.) 



<3 . Colour a tolerably uniform deep brown, with black markings 

 on the grooves of the dorsal plate ; legs deep brown ; ventral area 

 pale. 



Capitulum with posterior border straight in the middle, its 

 angles more abruptly spiniform than in li. marmoreus, its lateral 

 margins more obliquely diverging in their posterior two-thirds, 

 then abruptly converging. Dorsal scute not quite covering the 

 lateral area, with normal cervical grooves ; marginal groove deep, 

 strongly pitted, extending from a point on a level with the cervical 

 groove to the beginning of the festoons of the posterior border ; 

 posteriorly there is a pair of deep pitted grooves, and between 



1 Owing to the dried state of the specimen, satisfactory examination of the 

 mandibular armature was impossible. 



