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Catalogue of Ticks Vol. Ill 



collected by 

 George H. F. Nuttall 

 Quick Professor of Biology, Director of the Molteno Institute 

 for Research in Parasitology, Cambridge, 



ORIGINAL DETERMINATION 



CURRENT STATUS 



3501 



N 

 RML 



Ornithodoros lahorensis 1 N 



On goat-skin mat 



Lahore, Punjab, India 



Gift of S. Hadwen 1922 



S. H. det. C. W. confirmed. 



This tick procured for Dr. Hadwen 

 the local reputation of a 

 Sherlock Holmes. A friend in 

 Canada brought it to him with the 

 remark "Well you can't tell me what 

 this isl" Dr. Hadwen said "It is 

 Ornithodorus lahorensis , which 

 infects goats in the Punjab:" The 

 friend had found it in a goat-skin 

 mat which his father had recently 

 sent him from Lahore I 



C. W. 4. XII. 1922. 



3501 



112546 



1 N Ornithodoros lahorensis 



On goat-skin mat 



Lahore (31.35 N, 74.18 E), Pakistan 



Gift of S. Hadwen 1922 



