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appends a foot-note,* of which the following is a free translation : 
Say’s description is too incomplete to enable one to affirm, with 
absolute certainty, that the following forms are synonymous ; 
nevertheless it is highly probable that they are. This is invariably 
the case with all the old descriptions of Ixodides. Say concluded 
his description with the following remark : — Found in consider- 
able numbers on a Cervus virginianus , in East Florida.” 
It is interesting to note that Ehipicephalus annulatus , which 
is responsible for the transmission of what is known in the United 
States as “Texas Fever,” is found in Texas, Maryland, Washing- 
ton, Chicago, Baltimore, Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas, New 
Mexico, and Honduras, on cattle ; Cuba, cattle and dogs ; Jamaica, 
cattle; Florida, on deer (Cariacus virginianus , Bodd.) ; Guada- 
loupe, on cattle (where it is known as the “ Creole Tick,” in 
opposition to the Hyalomma cegyptium , or “Senegalese Tick”) ; 
it is also found in Guatemala, Mexico, and Monte Video ; it 
occurs in Paraguay, where it has been found ensconced under 
bark of trees, and it has been taken in Timor on the “Sambar” 
deer ( Rusa equinus , Cuvier) ; the cattle of the Caucasus and 
Tran scaucasus, of Asia, and of Singapore, are also affected by it ; 
the pest is also known in North and South Africa ; in Algiers 
and at Morocco, on African cattle, Barbary and Touarick sheep ; 
again, it occurs in Egypt, Madagascar, at Cape Lopez, Gaboon, and 
Port Elizabeth (South Africa). It may, therefore be considered, 
as Neumann observes, cosmopolitan. 
The reviser also described a variety from the typical form, 
under the name of Ehipicephalus annulatus caudatus ; but I would 
advise those interested in the study of these creatures, to peruse 
Professor Neumann’s work, from which the notes necessary for 
this brief contribution were made.f 
It is evident, from the foregoing, that the danger of the 
pest spreading is even greater than some of our Australian 
authorities and experts may have imagined. It is only fair, 
however, to state that Mr. C. J. Pound, Bacterioligist to 
the Queensland Government, has, in a recent paper, drawn 
attention to the means by which Cattle Ticks may be spread. 
He says | : — “ Careful and close observations have shown that 
although the bovine is the only perfect natural host of the 
Cattle Tick, it is only one of the many agencies for its dis- 
tribution. It has been proved that the tick will mature, under 
favourable conditions, upon the horse and the sheep, and that the 
eggs from such ticks are fertile. I have also found them in 
various stages of development attached to goats, kangaroos, 
wallabies, and various kinds of birds, as the ibis, crane, peewit, 
* Loc. cit.y p. 407. 
f Loc. cit., pp. 324-422. 
X Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens., xiv.. 1899, p. 31. 
