G-. H. F. Nutt all 
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Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, by Mr E. M. Anderson, 
Assistant Curator of the Provincial Museum. 
We have recently determined (P. 37) $ from head of king penguin, 
A-ptenodytes patagonica, Lusitania Bay, Macquarie Island, 14. xn. 1912, 
and (P. 4 + 733) many $s and os from skua, Megalestris antarctica, 
Macquarie Island, H. Hamilton coll. (Australian Antarctic [Mawson] 
Expedition). 
Of the species of Ixodes occurring in birds, only three (I. brunneus, 
I. putus and I. signatus) show an equally wide geographical distribution. 
The type $s are in the Paris Museum and in the Neumann collection, 
Toulouse, they were originally described by Neumann in 1899 as 
I. tlioracicus ; the types (N. 3179) of the immature stages are in 
Cambridge. 
3. Species now Recognized as Valid and Redescribed after 
Examination of the Types. 
Ixodes granulatus Supino 1897. 
Fig. 17. 
Lit. and Icon.: Supino, 1897, p. 16, PI. Ill, figs. 1-10 and 1897, p. 250, PI. XII, 
figs. 5-6. Neumann, 1899, p. 164; 1902, p. 125. Nuttall and Warburton, 
1911 in Ticks, Part n. pp. 291-292, where it is given as a doubtful species, the 
author’s and Neumann’s description being insufficient. 
Male: Unknown. 
Female (Fig. 17): Hard parts light chestnut brown. ( Dorsal aspect) 
Scutum with very pointed scapular angles, emargination moderate, as 
long as broad or longer (0-9 x 0-9 to 1-1 x 0-8 mm.), oval, broadest 
about mid-length; cervical grooves faint, closely converging near the 
emargination, then diverging without attaining the borders, lateral 
ridges bounding outwardly a depressed elongate area almost free from 
punctations which is limited internally by the cervical grooves, the 
ridges may or may not attain the postero-lateral borders; punctations 
numerous, coarse, uniformly distributed, chiefly in the median field; 
hairs absent. Capitulum (0-8 mm. long dorsally): Base long, some¬ 
what triangular, dorsal ridge almost straight, cornua absent; porose 
areas large, shallow, pear-shaped or irregularly triangular, near the 
dorsal ridge, the interval about equal to their length; palps long, 
article 3 shorter than 2, both slightly hollowed dorso-internally, article 3 
rather pointed distally, article 1 small and protruding; ( Ventral aspect) 
