. Science-gossip . Ixodes ycdinitis. Fig. 2 adult female. Fig. 10 male in Balsam. Fig. 11 Larva. KIG. 2 Pupa IliA.—Length I50 to I-68 mm. undistended, to3-30 when distended. Rostrum 12 to 14 barbs,chelifers five hooks. Body olive white, transparent,. / i((/<.s Itdttiius Fctnnic nud Ji^^s, with four distinct brown posterior intestinal similar anterior marks leaving a paler centre 10the shield, which is shaped like an arrow head. Whendistended the body is of a uniform black. Legs,rostrum, etc., testaceous or brown. (Fig. 12.) ength 76 Rostrum 12 Palpi 16 Spiracles 8 Shield 32 Sread
. Science-gossip . Ixodes ycdinitis. Fig. 2 adult female. Fig. 10 male in Balsam. Fig. 11 Larva. KIG. 2 Pupa IliA.—Length I50 to I-68 mm. undistended, to3-30 when distended. Rostrum 12 to 14 barbs,chelifers five hooks. Body olive white, transparent,. / i((/<.s Itdttiius Fctnnic nud Ji^^s, with four distinct brown posterior intestinal similar anterior marks leaving a paler centre 10the shield, which is shaped like an arrow head. Whendistended the body is of a uniform black. Legs,rostrum, etc., testaceous or brown. (Fig. 12.) ength 76 Rostrum 12 Palpi 16 Spiracles 8 Shield 32 Sreadth 42 ,. 4 4 7 28 Legsdst) ... L lO 6 10 10 8 20 B 8 6 6 6 <) 5 (2nd) .... L 8 7 S 8 7 12 B 6 S 4 4 4 0 (,rd) .... L 12 8 10 9 S 12 B 8 6 .i .S 4 4 , (4thl ... L 10 10 12 12 10 16 B 8 b .^ 5 5 4 .?\fter attachment to the host both the lar\a andpupa become replete with blood, black in colour,fully distended, and with the exception of size, closelyresemble the fully distended female in generalappearance. It is to be noticed that the size of the so SCIENCE-GOSSIP. full)- distended lar\a approximates ven* nearly to thatof the tindistended pupa, and that in the case of thedistended pupa, may actually exceed the undistendedfemale in size. This
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