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from Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., possesses but two legs on the 
left side (legs ii and iv are missing) ; as in Fig. 5, the tick’s body curves 
to the underdeveloped side. The left adanal shields are under¬ 
developed. 
Specimen 10. 
(Fig. 10.) Aynhlyomma suhlaeve Neumann, 1899, nymph (N. 2955), 
found on Manis javanica, at Karkecet, Burma, by Fea (presented by 
Prof. R. Gestro, of the Genoa Museum, the specimen being one of 
a lot of specimens of the same species from Supino’s collection labelled 
Fig. 10. Amblyomma suhlaeve nymph. Abnormal: underdeveloped right side bearing 
but two legs and a small chitinous plaque in Heu of a third leg. 
Rhipicephalus javanensis). The abnormality consists in there being 
but two legs on the right side. Legs i and ii (or iii 1) are missing, and 
one or the other is perhaps represented by a small chitinized plaque 
situated in the place left vacant by the absent legs. 
Fig. 11. Hyalomma aegyptium Abnormal: supernumerary leg springmg from 
trochanter ii of the right side. 
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