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Legs, pale ochre-yellow; no spurs on coxae or tarsi; pidvilli relatively 
larger than in other stages. 
Gorged. Beyond the distension of the body, the changes during and 
after engorgement in the larva do not call for any special reference. A 
noteworthy feature is the fact that larvae of H. punctata, taken from 
inside the ears of rabbits, when fully gorged are a clear straw-yellow in 
colour, from which it would appear that lymph and not blood had 
been ingested. 
Haemaphysalis punctata var. cinnaberina (C. L. Koch), 
Neumann 1905. 
This variety, based on a single young J, is distinguished from the 
typical H. punctata by the presence of a white chitinous circle round 
the genital orifice and also round the anus. The type, a dried specimen, 
from Para, Brazil, is in the B. Lucas Collection (Berlin Mus.) where it 
was examined by Neumann (1897, p. 331), who first described it as 
H. cinnaberina, C. L. Koch, but subsequently degraded it to a variety. 
This tick was inadequately described and figured by C. L. Koch (1844, 
p. 237 ; 1847, p. 123 and PI. XXVI, fig. 97). 
Geographical Distribution of Haemaphysalis punctata. 
Hosts attacked. 
Canestrini (1890, p. 525) and Berlese say that this species is fairly 
common on sheep in Italy; also on goats and fallow deer. L. Koch 
found a £ in a wood near Niirnberg, and named it Rhipicephalus 
expositicius. Neumann has males collected by Colin on a bull (Railliet 
Coll.): one and 4 $’s from Digne, Beaune, Corsica (Simon Coll.): 
2 $’s and 1 </ from Villefranche found on a horse (Aveyron): 5 $’s and 
6 cC’s from sheep and ox at Ste. Jean de Luz: 1 $ and many larvae from 
sheep in England (B. A. I. Coll., Washington, D.C.): 1 $ on Numenius 
arquata and 1 nymph on Otus otus at Utrecht (Oudemans Coll.): 2 ^’s 
at Jassy, Roumania (Leon Coll.) : 1 at Fiume, Croatia (Simon Coll.): 
1 found under stones and 1 $ on a lizard, Acanthodactylus vulgaris 
at Oran (Domergue): 1 $ on a bull at Blida, another on a goat at Medea, 
1 from Marnia, 1 from a sheep in Egypt (Smithsonian Inst. Coll. 
Washington): 1 </ and 1 $ from Orotava, Teneriffe, and 1 $ from 
Funchal, Madeira (Kraepelin Coll. Hamburg Mus.): 5 $’s from Canary 
Islands (Paris Mus.): 1 $ from a horse in Aomori, Japan. According 
