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  Dr. 
  D. 
  Sharp 
  on 
  

  

  XLVII. 
  — 
  On 
  a 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Hsemaphysalis, 
  G. 
  L. 
  Koch, 
  

   imported 
  into 
  England 
  by 
  Syrrliaptes 
  paradoxus. 
  By 
  the 
  

   Rev. 
  0. 
  Pickard-Cambridge, 
  M.A., 
  F.R.S., 
  &c. 
  

  

  Class 
  ARACHNID 
  A. 
  

  

  Order 
  ACARIDEA. 
  

  

  Fain. 
  Ixodidae. 
  

  

  Genus 
  Hjemaphysalis, 
  C. 
  L. 
  Koch. 
  

  

  Hcemaphysalts 
  peregrinus, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Adult 
  female, 
  length 
  4 
  

   lines, 
  breadth 
  "2\. 
  

  

  Cephalothorax, 
  palpi, 
  and 
  

   legs 
  bright 
  red-brown. 
  

  

  Abdomen 
  deep 
  liver-co- 
  

   loured, 
  brown. 
  

  

  Cephalothorax 
  oval, 
  very 
  

   finely 
  punctuose 
  and 
  striated. 
  

  

  Palpi 
  very 
  short, 
  terminal 
  joint 
  large 
  and 
  subtriangular. 
  

   Eyes 
  absent. 
  

  

  Legs 
  seven-jointed 
  and 
  furnished 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  short 
  hairs. 
  

   An 
  example 
  of 
  this 
  Acarid, 
  which 
  appears 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  be 
  

   undescribed, 
  was 
  received 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  summer 
  of 
  1888 
  from 
  

   Professor 
  Newton, 
  of 
  Magdalen 
  College, 
  Cambridge, 
  and 
  

   another 
  subsequently 
  from 
  Mr. 
  John 
  Cordeaux, 
  of 
  Great 
  

   Cotes, 
  Ulceby, 
  Lincolnshire. 
  Each 
  of 
  these 
  examples 
  had 
  

   been 
  taken 
  from 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Syrrliaptes 
  paradoxus 
  killed 
  

   during 
  the 
  remarkable 
  immigration 
  of 
  that 
  bird 
  into 
  England 
  

   in 
  1888. 
  

  

  XLVII 
  I. 
  — 
  The 
  Staphylinidte 
  of 
  Japan. 
  

   By 
  Dr. 
  D. 
  Sharp. 
  

  

  [Continued 
  from 
  p. 
  334.] 
  

  

  Subfam. 
  Oxypobin^:. 
  

  

  The 
  occurrence 
  of 
  a 
  considerable 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  

   isolated 
  genus 
  Oxyporus 
  in 
  Japan 
  is 
  another 
  point 
  of 
  simi- 
  

   larity 
  of 
  some 
  importance 
  between 
  its 
  fauna 
  and 
  that 
  of 
  

   North 
  America. 
  

  

  