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Show 1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 49 Class ARA.CHNIDA. Order ACARI. Family TROMBIDIID^E. Genus TROMBIDIUM. TROMBIDIUM TINCTORIUM (Linn.), Trouess. Trombidium tinctorium, Trouessart, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1894, pp. 89-91 & 94, fig. a. Loc. Hargaisa in North-west Somaliland (April 25-28, 1895). Two specimens in the Hope Museum at Oxford. Family ARGASID.E. Genus ORNITHODOROS Koch. ORNITHODOROS SAVIGNYI (Aud.). Argas savignyi, Aud., Description de l'Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. pi. iv. fig. 5 ; Explanation of Plates, p. 183 (1827). Ornithodoros savignyi, Neumann, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, x. p. 26 (1897). Loc. Bularli in West Somaliland (May 1895). Six specimens, two in the British Museum, the rest in the Hope Museum at Oxford. Family IXODID^E. Genus HYALOMMA C. Koch. HYALOMMA GROSSUM C. Koch. Hyalomma grossum, C. Koch, Arch. Natur. x. i. p. 220, no. 2, Uebersicht etc. iv. p. 34, pi. ii. fig. 8 (1847). Loc. Bularli in West Somaliland (May 1895). A single distended female, probably referable to this species ; in the Hope Museum at Oxford. Genus BHIPICEPHALUS C. Koch. BHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS (Latr.). Ixodes sanguineus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. i. p. 157 (1804). Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latr.), Neumann, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, x. p. 385 (1897). Loc. Bularli in West Somaliland (May 1895). Three specimens, one in the British Museum and two in the Hope Museum at Oxford. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1900, No. IV. 4 |
