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Text Fiaure 13. — Eurytrichodectes paradoxus 
Stobbe, female 
Previous Recorps. Known only from the original record by Ehrenberg, 
which in the available literature is given merely as from Procavia (= Hyrazx) 
syriacus without indication of locality, and from a single female from Procavia 
capensis coombsi, Rooikrans, Transvaal, considered by Bedford to be this species. 
Notes. Stobbe (ref. cited) has given some notes on this species, based upon 
Ehrenberg’s types which are still in the Berlin Museum. The figure accom- 
panying the note is merely a crude outline, but the head form of the species is 
very distinctive and would make its recognition easy if it were not that apparently 
there are two closely related species of this same type. These two are Tricho- 
dectes serraticus Hill and that considered by Bedford to be 7. diacanthus. 
As far as can be determined from the figure given by Bedford — which is far 
from being precise and definite — and from his statements, his specimen differs 
from what I take to be 7’. serraticus only in having the claws of the middle and 
posterior legs spinose-serrate. It may be noted that he records his specimen as 
occurring in company with a male of 7’. serraticus, which is perhaps not at all 
significant. 
Trichodectes serraticus Hill 
Text Figs. Nos. 14 and 15 
1922. Trichodectes serraticus Hill, Parasitology 14:67; pl. 2, figs. 7-9. 
1928. Trichodectes serraticus Hill, Bedford, Report Director Veterinary Education and Research, 
Union of South Africa 13-14 : 848. 
