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Introduction and veterinary importance 3 Medical o1 terms.. 5 Explanation Bo,ophilus 9 Genus armtlattts (Say) 11 Boophilus microphts (Canestrini) 17 t3oophilus lhipicephalus 23 Genus scmtTuineus (Latreille) 24 lhipicephtlus 1-1ctemctthysctlis 30 Genus to adults 30 Iey to nymphs 30 Iey leporis-pcdustris (Packard) 31 Hctemctphyscdis chordeilis (Packard) 37 Haemephyscdis kochi Arago 44 Haemaphysalis furttkochi, n. sp 48 Haemaphysttlis 51 References CONTENTS 111
present paper, the last in the monographic series- on NEW WORLD The prepared at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, treats of the genera ticks Rhipicep,halus, and Haemaphysalis, and is based mainly on Boophilus, numerous specimens which have accumulated in this laboratory the collections .made by field workers from the laboratory, and through correspondence with individuals in this country and in other through Since sufficient material was available, the species from both countries. America and South America are included. North more attention should be directed to the study of ticks in all Much Americas south of the United States. There are probably many the southern Mexico, Central America, and espe- in South America south of the 25th meridian where only one cially Ixodes uriae, has been recorded. species, acknowledgment is made to Dr. E. W. Price and to Mr. Grateful Mclntosh of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart- Allen of Agriculture for authentic specimens of Boopl,ilus nnultus ment date back to the time when this tick was of importance because it which the vector of Texas fever in cattle; to Dr. Henrique de Beaurepaire is of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for Arago B. Fairchild, Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Panama, for essential G, of Haemaphysalis. from Central America. specimens Genera Dermacentor and Octocentor (Ixodidae) in the United States, with studies in The R. A. Cooley. National Institute of Health Bulletin No. 175. Government Printing variation, 1938. Office, Genus Amblyomma (Ixodidae) in the United States, R. A. Cooley and Glen M. Kohls. The of ParasitoIogy, 3o: 77-111, 1944. Journal Argasidae of North America, Central America and Cuba, R. A. Cooley and Glen M Kohls. The Midland Naturalist, Monograph No. 1, 1944. Atneriean Genus Ixodes in North America, R. A. Cooley and Glen M. Kohls. National Institute of The INTRODUCTION species new to science in authentic specimens;to Mr. L. H. Dunn, Ovid, New York, and to Dr. Health Bulletin No. 184. Government Printing Office, 1945.
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