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Genus Haemaphij sails 



'enter: spiracle short comma-shaped, the narrow end postero-dorsal ; 

 anal grooves semicircular. Legs : as in the type ; coxa I without definite 

 spur, but with its internal end truncated and the corners slightly 



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Fig. 313. H. inermis var. apononimoides ? . Capitulum and scutum, profile of right palp, 

 coxae, spiracle and anus with anal grooves. (N. C. del.) Warburton, 1913, Fig. 8. 



protuberant ; coxae II-IV with a slight protuberance in the middle 

 of the posterior border ; tarsus IV rather long and tapering (as in 

 H. howletti $, see Fig. 434). 



Described from (N. 1566) 23 $ taken from a Himalayan Zehu 

 (Bibos sp.) at Belgachia, Calcutta, India, ill. 1912, in company with 

 Boophilus australis, by Col. F. Raymond, F.R.C.V.S. We have since 

 determined (Berlin Mus. 173) 1 $ found on a horse at Fukoka, Japan. 



Types in Cambridge ; we have presented co-types to the Berlin 

 Museum and to Prof Neumann's collection in Toulouse. 



H. inermis Birula, 1895, has hitherto been considered the most 

 aberrant form of Haemaphysalis, and its attribution to that genus 

 would be extremely doubtful were it not for such intermediate forms 

 as H. warhurtoni Nuttall, 1912. The present variety still further 

 departs from the normal Haemaphysalis type, and still more closely 

 approaches Aponomma. The genus Haemaphysalis and sub-genus 

 Aponomma have normally little in common, except the negative 

 characteristics of the absence of eyes and anal plates, and we should 



