H. inermis 367 



company with H. cinvabarina var. punctata and Boophilus. France : 

 Neumann (1901, p. 262) appears to have been the first to record the 

 species from France, describing it under the name of H. amhigua, of 

 which 6 ? were collected in 1894 by E. Simon. Neumann has pre- 

 sented us with a co-type (N. 2881). Dr E. Brumpt has sent us his 

 unpublished records relating to the occurrence of the tick on deer, on 

 which he found adults on 13 occasions (9 times with H. concinna and 

 once with H. cinnaharina var. punctata) at Fontainebleau, Dept. Seine- 

 et-Marne, and in the Depts. Vienne and Indre in Western and Central 

 France respectively. We have examined all of Brumpt's material, 

 including specimens which he raised in the laboratory, and he has 

 allowed us to retain numerous examples of all stages (N. 1525-1528, 

 2752, 2753, 2756-2759, 2762) ; further particulars regarding them will 

 be found in the Section on Biology. [Japan : Neumann (1906, p. 217) 

 records 1 $ from Naemorhaedus crispus Temm., found in company with 

 Ixodes and Haemaphysalis spp.'] 



See further under Section on Biology (p. 545). The biology of the 

 species is remarkable. 



Haemaphysalis inermis var. aponommoides 

 Warburton, 1913. 



Fig. 313. 



Lit. and Icon. : Warburton, vii. 1913, pp. 128-130, Fig. 8 (reproduced). 



Male : unknown. 



Female (Fig. 318): Scutum: broader than long, 1 x 1'4 mm., 

 broadest at the anterior third, and much more narrowed posteriorly 

 than in the type; glossy, but with numerous discrete, medium-sized 

 punctations; cervical grooves broad sub-parallel tracts without any 

 initial pits ; emargination slight. Capituliim : even more Aponomma- 

 like than in the t3^pe ; base bluntly salient at the "sides, almost 

 destitute of cornua ; porose areas large sub-circular, bounded ex- 

 ternally and anteriorly by sub-rectilinear ridges, the interval about 

 equal to their diameter; palps long and narrow, their outer border 

 straight and not convex as in the type ; article 1 well visible ; articles 

 2 and 3 not distinctly separated, article 2 corrugated dorsally, and 

 without any trace of lateral salience. Hypostome spatulate, dentition 



^ Probably H. inei-inis var. aponovimoides, q. v. 



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