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gin. Chelicerae slender, both arms very tapering and adapted for 

 piercing. 



Cephalothorax not demarcated from abdomen. Body sparsely 

 clothed with curved, sharp bristles. Most of these bristles have each, 

 one or more small branches on the outer curved margin. On the an- 

 terior end of the body is situated a small pair of submedian straight 

 bristles. 



Text fig. i. Haemogamasus sanguineus n. sp. 



Legs rather slender ; first pair reaching beyond the tips of the 

 palpi by the full length of the last two segments ; fourth pair fall- 

 ing far short of the tip of the abdomen. Tarsus of leg I slightly 

 longer than tibia, clothed with somewhat lengthened hairs ; tibia sub- 

 equal to genual. Leg II slightly, if at all, enlarged, somewhat longer 

 and stouter than leg III. Tarsus of leg IV very long and tapering, 

 about one and one-half times as long as tibia; tibia not as stout as 



