Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 



99 



BB. Eyes small, whitish ; punctuations of shield unequal, 

 few in number; coxae I conical ... Iiippopotcnnensc . 



Females. ■ - 



A. Punctuations of shield coarse, unequal. 



B. Eyes prominent, hemispherical, black; punctuations 

 numerous but distinct ; coxae I deeply divided 



ae (J !j ptiiim. 



BB. Eyes small, whitish ; punctuations larpre, not very 

 abundant, unequal; coxae I conical ... /lippopotamense. 

 AA. Punctuations of shield fine ... aegyptium i in pressinn . 



HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM. {JANNAEUS.) 

 The Bont Lec; Tick. 



Ac<(ni>< nefjijpfinx, Linnaeus (1758). 



Aearux hispanus, Fabricius (1794). 



C ynoi-liaestes aegyptius, Hermann (1804). 



Ixodes camel in us, Eischer de Waldheim (1823). 



Ixodes fahricii, Audouin (1827). 



Ixodes savignyi, Gervais (1844). 



Hyalomma dromedarii (male and female), Koch (1844 and 1847). 

 grossum (female), Kocli (1844, 1847). 

 ,, anafoJicuiii (female), Koch (1844, 1847). 



hisifanicinn (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847). 

 aeq ijptiuin, Koch (1844, 1847). 

 fahncii, Koch (1844, 1847). 

 rufipes (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847). 

 ,, fnnicatwm (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 



h/spfdnnn (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847) 

 i u} pressum (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847 j. 

 Syria cum (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 

 ,, cxcarafum (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 

 ,, marginatum (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 

 Ixodes grasilentus (nymph), Lucas (1845). 

 Ixodes his pan us (female), Kolenati (1857). 

 Ixodes cormiger (male), Kolenati (1857). 

 Ixodes africanus, Meg^nin (187(j). 



Hyalomma dentafum, Canestrini et Fanzage (1877, 1878). 



Hyalomma cornuger, Murray (1879). 



Hyalomma hispanicum, Murray (1879). 



Ophiodes gracilcntus , Murray (1879). 



Ixodes algeriensis, Megnin (1880). 



Hyalomma ufriculus, Berlese (1889). 



Hyalomma algeriense, Canestrini (1890). 



Hyalomma aegyptium , (Linnaeus) (IN'euinann, 1899). 



Plate ]\ fio^ures e, f, n. 

 Male. — Body flat; oval: widest opposite coxae IV; caudal 

 extremity truncate, length 3.5 to 4 mm. (rostrum not included), width 

 2.25 to 3 mm. Shield {V , /) deep chestnut brown; covering all the 

 dorsal surface, except a narrow marginal border on fully engorged 

 specimens, which is yellowish white; prolonged in a point on each 



