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The Genus Ixodes 
Described by me from 2 $ and 1 o (types and co-type) found on 
Anas superciliosa in 1904 by Mr W. W. Smith of Ashburton, New 
Zealand, and from 2 ? from Apteryx mantelli, North Island, New Zealand, 
hi. 1914, likewise collected by Mr Smith who reports that this tick 
infests young kiwis about the ears and top of the head, occurring about 
the base of the rudimentary wings in old birds; when alive the ticks 
appear dark blue with brilliant red legs. This description of the colour 
does not appear to accord with that previously given, no doubt the 
colour of the legs was overlooked in the first instance whilst the colour 
of the body will vary according to the state of repletion and the time 
which has elapsed since the tick sucked blood. 
Ixodes eudyptidis Masked 1885. 
Lit. and Icon.: Maskell, W. M„ 1885, pp. 19, 20, PI. VIII, figs. 12-14. Other 
references follow in the text. 
This tick is referred to in our work Ticks, Part n. p. 291, under 
doubtful species. Maskell described it so badly that it was impossible 
to determine the validity of the species; the author’s statement that 
it was “evidently a true tick” appeared, however, to be justified. The 
scutum was described as hairless, glossy, and with many fine and shallow 
punctations. The types were found “in the gape of the penguin” at 
Dusky Sound, New Zealand. Judging from the author’s bad figures 
we concluded that the tick might be I. putus (0. Pickard-Cambridge, 
1876). 
In Ticks, Part n. pp. 217-220, Figs. 213 (?) and 214 (o) under the 
name of I. neumanni, Nuttall and Warburton redescribed specimens 
from Neumann’s collection which had been collected in New Zealand 
by Suter, the host unrecorded. These specimens had been referred to 
I. eudyptidis Maskell by Neumann (1899, p. 128) who had not seen 
Maskell’s types. As already stated, Maskell’s description was useless 
and we concluded that Neumann merely guessed at the determination 
on the ground that the specimens collected by Suter likewise came from 
New Zealand. This justified our redescribing Neumann’s purported 
1. eudyptidis as 1. neumanni failing access being obtainable to Maskell’s 
types. Neumann (1904, p. 451) himself degraded I. praecoxalis Nn. 
1899, and I. intermedins Nn. 1899, to the rank of synonyms of “/. 
eudyptidis Maskell.” 
Through the kind help of Prof. Charles Chilton of Canterbury College, 
New Zealand, I have been able to examine a co-type ? of 7. eudyptidis 
