Annals- of the Transvaal Museum. 
. 9,9 ■ 
BB. Eyes small, whitish ; punctuations of shield unequal, 
few in number; coxae I conical ... hippopotamense.. 
Females. 
A. Punctuations of shield coarse, unequal. 
B. Eyes prominent, hemispherical, black; punctuations, 
numerous but distinct ; coxae I deeply divided 
aegyptium . 
BB. Eyes small, whitish ; punctuations larg*e, not very 
abundant, unequal; coxae I conical ... hippopotamense . 
A A. Punctuations of shield fine ... aegyptium impressum.. 
HYALOMMA AEGYPTIUM. (LINNAEUS.) 
The Bont Leg Tick. 
Acarus aegyptius , Linnaeus (1T58). 
A cams hispanus, Fabricius (1794). 
Cynorhaestes aegyptius , Hermann (1804). 
Ixodes camelinus, Fischer de Waldheim (1823). 
Ixodes fabricii, Audouin (1827). 
Ixodes savignyi, Gervais (1844). 
Hyalomma dromedarii (male and female), Koch (1844 and 1847).. 
,, grossum (female), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, anatolicum (female), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, lusitanicum (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, aegyptium, Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, fabricii, Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, rufipes (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, truncatum (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, hispanum (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847) 
,, impressum , (male and female), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, syriacum (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, excavatum (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 
,, marginatum (male), Koch (1844, 1847). 
Ixodes grasilentus (nymph), Lucas (1845). 
Ixodes hispanus (female), Kolenati (1857). 
Ixodes cornuger (male), Kolenati (1857). 
Ixodes africanus, Megnin (1876). 
Hyalomma dentatum, Canestrini et Fanzage (1877, 1878). 
Hyalomma cornuger, Murray (1879). 
Hyalomma hispanicum, Murray (1879). 
Ophiodes gracilentus, Murray (1879). 
Ixodes algeriensis , Megnin (1880). 
Hyalomma utriculus, Berlese (1889). 
Hyalomma algeriense, Canestrini (1890). 
Hyalomma aegyptium, (Linnaeus) (Neumann, 1899). 
Plate V, figures e, f , n. 
Male. — Body flat; oval; widest opposite coxae IY ; 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' 
