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laterals more prolonged in front, the median more prolonged beliind, 

 reaching almost to the posterior margin, which is divided into eleven, 

 quadrangular festoons, the integument often transparent, and allowing- the- 

 ramifications of the intestines to show through as blackish, radiating lines. 

 When fully engorged, two grooves in the anterior half, diverging behind 

 and a little concave outward • three more in the middle posterior, of which 

 a median, straight and two laterals, convex outward ; stigmatic plates oval,, 

 with a prolongation, well marked, forming the postero-external angle. 

 Rostrum with base widened into prominent points behind the insertion of 

 the palpi, porose areas small, circular, and separated by more 

 than their diameter ; mandibles with process of inner apophysis 

 elongate transversely and tridentate, outer apophysis tridentate,. 

 terminal tooth small and sub-ventral ; liypostome a little spatulate, 

 shorter than the palpi, proAdded with three rows of teeth on each 

 half, almost equal in size, each row including about 12 teeth, of which the- 

 size diminishes a little from front backward; palpi short and strong,, 

 longer and more slender than in male, with sides not so angular, the first 

 three articles bearing on their inner ventral edges three prominences, very 

 marked on the first article ; a row of stout spines, a little dentate, directed 

 inward and forward, the outer edge of article I strongly constricted and 

 concave, which produces a sort of constriction of the rostrum at the base 

 of the palpi. Ijegs rather slender, dark brown ; coxae longer than wide ;: 

 those of the last three pairs provided with a small spine near the anterior 

 external angle, and a l)hint tuberosity on the external tlnrd of the posterior 

 margin ; stiff hairs on all the articles, es])ecially on dorsal and ventral 

 edges of third to last ; tarsi of three last pairs terminated by a curved' 

 claw, preceded by a small blunt spine on the ventral edge. 



Hosts. — The domestic animals, sheep, goats, cattle, horse, ass, dog 

 wild boar ; hedgehog-. 



Ilahitat. — Southern France, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Corsica,, 

 Sardinia, Algeria, throughout West Africa and East Africa, Congo,. 

 Abyssinia, Cape Colony, Portuguese East Africa, Transvaal, Cuba, Haiti,, 

 Jamaica. 



This tick has l)een frequently mistaken for the browji tick, which it 

 very closely resembles. It is not of very common occurrence in the Trans- 

 vaal, but seems to l)e more common in I^orthern Africa and Southern. 

 Europe. 



EHIPICEPHALUS NITENS. NEUMANN. 



Tpie Siiixy Browx Teck. 



liJi ipircpliatus )}ifens, Xeumann (lOO-t). 



Male. — J)0(tij oval, narrow in front, wide l)ehind ; length -t mm., 

 (rostrum included), Avidtli 2.5 mm ; general colour reddish yelloAV. SJiield 

 shining-, covering all the dorsal surface ; cervical grooves not very 

 deep ; eyes flat, yelloAvish ; marginal grooves Avell marked, extending- 

 from the eye to the extreme festoon ; festoons very a])])arent, 

 the median one smaller than the neighbouring ones, or almost as large ; 

 punctuations numerous, unequal, superficial, mostly very fine, the large- 

 ones distributed along the borders and irregularly in the anterior region. 

 Anal plates semi-luiuite, the inner edge very concave, the outer edge- 



