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80 Genus Hdemaplnjsalh 



Haemaphysalis rhiuolophi L'ane.strini and Fanzago, 1877, p. 189 ; Canestrini, 

 1890, p. a'2Q> ; Neumann, 1897, j). 332. According to Neumann this is a 

 good species distinguishable from //. punctata through having a non- 

 punctfite scutum, (^ne of us (G. H. F. N.), in 1910, examined the only 

 existing type specimen through the courtesy of Prof. Carazzi of the Zoo- 

 logical Institute, Padua, a $ without capitulum and anterior third of the 

 body and witli only three legs remaining. The specimen proved to be 

 only a poorly chitinised //. cinnaharina var. punctata. 



Haemaphysalis punctata punctata Canestrini and Fanzago in Neumann, 1911a, 

 pp. 107-108, Figs. 50, 52. The figures show the ^ in dorsal and ventral 

 aspects, the palp seen ventrally. 



Hae7naphiisaliscra3saV\&T\mvUm, 1908, pp. 516-517, Fig. 8 (reproduced); see 

 discussion in our text. 



Not Pseudi-xodes holsatus (Fabricius) in Haller, 1882, p. 311, PI. V, Fig. 5 

 {^ capitulum) as stated by Canestrini, 1890, pp. 485, 526, who includes it 

 in his synonymy of i^^. /?w«ctoto ; Neumann, 1897, p. 360, appears justified 

 in referring the tick to the synonymy of Dennacentor reticidatus (Fabricius 

 1794). 



Male (Text fig. 321, Plates IX, X^, Figs. 3, 4; XI, Figs. 2, 5, 6): 

 Scutum : elongate, narrowed in front ; size variable, averaging about 

 3x2 mm. but ranging from 3"3 x 2-0 down to 2-4 x 15 mm.'^; colour 

 usually dark brown ; cervical grooves rather short, concave externally ; 

 lateral grooves very long, beginning at the level of legs II, and 

 including from one to three festoons ; punctations very numerous and 

 small over the whole surface, some of them confluent ; two lateral 

 farrows (in ungorged specimens), sometimes resolved into a series 

 of shallow pits, and often connected posteriorly by three shallow pits 

 in front of the festoons ; festoons short and ill-defined ; emargination 

 deep and abrupt. Capitulum small ; base rectangular, about twice 

 as broad as long, punctate ; cornua short and blunt ; palps short, 

 the lateral salience slight, not angular, but rounded ; article 1 hardly 



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visible ; article 2 massive, and longer than article 3 ; the inner contour i 



of articles 2 and 3 rectilinear, and their dorsal surface somewhat 

 corrugated ; no dorsal spurs, but a strong ventral retrograde spur under 

 article 3 ; hypostome 5 ; 5 (with sometimes an extra pair of files for 

 part of the length). Vente?^ : spiracles large, elongate, with blunt dorsal 

 process ; anal grooves very slightly ogival. Legs strong, coxa I short, 

 with blunt internal spur ; coxae II and III with a blunt spur in 



1 For description of Plates see p. ix. 



2 Variation determined on over 60 <? collected in England and Schleswig-Holstein, 

 or raised in Carubrirlge. The proportion of length to width varies, thus the scutum may 

 measure 3-0 x 18, 2-95 x 1-7, 2-9 x 1-8, 2-9 x 1-6, 2-6 x 1-4, 2-4 x 1-5 mm., etc. 



