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                                    Appendix A.

LIST OF SPECIES OF TICKS WHICH ARE OF CONSIDERABLE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
IN INDIA AND ATTACK DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN LARGE NUMBERS, WITH
THEIR USUAL HOSTS.

1.  Argas persicus (Oken), on poultry all over India.

2.  Argas reflexus var. indicus Warburton, on pigeon all over India.

3.  Haemaphysalis bispinosa Neumann, on cattle, goat and dog (occa-

sionally attacks sheep, horse and cat), practically all over India
excluding North-Western Provinces.

4.  Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille), on dog (occasionally attacks

cattle, horse, donkey and goat) all over India.

5. Boophilus australis (Fuller), on cattle (occasionally on sheep, goat,
horse and rarely on camel); the commonest cattle tick in Burma,
Assam, Bengal and the Andamans, but very common along with
Hyalomma (Hyalomma) aegyptium in Bihar, Orissa, the Central
Provinces, Madras Presidency, the southern districts of the
Bombay Presidency, and all along the southern slopes of the
Himalayas.

6. Hyalomma (Hyalomma) aegyptium (Linnaeus), on cattle, horse,
camel, donkey and sheep (occasionally on dog); the commonest
cattle tick in the Punjab, Sind, Rajputana and the United
Provinces, but in Bihar, Orissa, the Central Provinces and in
the Madras and Bombay Presidencies very common along with
B. australis.

7.  Hyalomma (Hyalomma) aegyptium subsp. isaaci Sharif, on cattle,
goat, sheep and dog (occasionally on horse and camel) practically
all over India excluding Bengal, Assam and Burma.

8.  Hyalomma (Hyalommina) hussaini Sharif, on cattle, (occasionally
on dog, horse and goat) in Bihar, Central and Peninsular India.

9.  Hyalomma (Hyalommina) kumari Sharif, on goat, (occasionally on
horse, cattle and sheep) in the Northern and Central India.