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AXKALS OF THE TrANSVAAL MuSEUM. 



BB. Coxae I divided into two wide teetli. 

 C. Cervical grooves simple 

 CC. Cervical grooves bifurcate 



marmoreum, 

 crenatum. 



Ky in pits. 



A. Metallic reflections on shield . . 

 AA. No metallic reflections on shield 



liebraeum^ 



B. Shield reddish brown 



BB. Shield with a vellow l)loom 



variegatum.. 

 sylvaticum.. 



Larvae. 



A. Body 0.7 mm. long (nnengorged) 

 AA. Body 0.75 mm. long (nnengorged) 



variegatum. 

 liebraeum. 



AMBLYOMMA HEBRAEUM. KOCH. 



The Boxt Tick. 



AmhJy omnia Jiehraenin, Koch (1844, 1847). 

 Aniblyoinina annulipes, Koch (1844, 1847). 

 Ixodes poortmani^ Lucas (1850). 

 Ixodes poortmani, Lucas, (Belval, 1861). 



AinUyoinma, hassalli, Marx and Neumann, (Neumann, 1899). 

 Amblyomma ehruneuni^ Gerstacker (1873). 

 AmUyoninia ehruneuni, Gerstacker, (Neumann, 1899). 

 AmUyoninia hehraeuni (male), Koch, (Neumann, 1899). 

 AmNyonima annidipes, Koch, (Neumann, 1899). 

 Amhlyonuna splendid ion, Giebel (1877). 

 AniUyonima splendidiun, Giebel, (Neumann, 1899). 



Male. — Body in a short oval, wider behind ; length 5 mm. (rostrum 

 not included), width 4 mm. Dorsal shield convex, covering all the upper 

 surface ; shining sulphur yellow, with spots and lines of a deep chestnut 

 colour ; cervical grooves short and wide ; marginal grooves narrow, 

 extending from the eyes to the posterior margin, wliere they form the 

 anterior margin of the festoons, and are there wider than in the lateral 

 portions ; cervical emargination deep, almost square, a little wider than 

 long, behind this emargination a sur-based triangular spot ; from each 

 anterior angle of the shield extend two dark coloured longitudinal 

 parallel lines, the inner one covering the cervical groove ; attenuated 

 at its posterior end, and not reaching quite to an arched 

 transverse line near the middle of the length of the shield, which passes 

 laterally beyond the tips of these anterior longitudinal lines ; near the 

 end of the cervical grooves, the longitudinal lines swell laterally, forming 

 a large dark spot ; the second of the pair of lines, leaving the anterior 

 angle of the shield, extends along the maro^in, becoming broad where it 

 surrounds the eye, then constricted, and suddenly bending inwards ; then 

 extends longitudinally, until just below the extremity of transverse arched 

 band, when it again extends outward to the margin of the outermost 



Plate XII, figures a to h. 



