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Madam:– On 30 September 1985 a partially engorged female brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus was taken from the scalp, near the vertex, of a nine year old female child during a visit to a hairdresser in Lower Hutt. The child had returned from Papua New Guinea nine days previously and it can be assumed that the tick was acquired there as there are no known populations of R. sanguineus established in New Zealand. When the child was seen by a medical practitioner there were no lesions on her scalp apart from a small raised lump where the tick had been attached.