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Genus Haemapliijsalis 



10. HAEMAPHYSALIS PAPUANA Thorell, 1882. 



Figs. 338-341. 



Lit. and Icon. : Thorell, 1882, pp. 62-66, Pi. VI, Figs. 40-45 ( ^ dorsum and 

 venter, ends of digits, foot ; $ dorsum ; good figures). Canestrini, G., 1884, 

 p. 705 (repr. p. 13) PI. VI, Fig. 4 (figures the capitukun of a specimen he 

 determined as H. papuana from Queensland ; his determination is probably 

 wrong, if not the figure is inaccurate). Neumann, 1897, pp. 330, 337. Rainbow, 

 1906, p. 165 (lists the tick as occurring in Australia on Canestrini's authority 

 cited above q. v.). Warburton, 1908, pp. 514-516, P'ig. 6 (reproduced). Blan- 

 chard, 1909, p. 154 (species listed only). Neumann, 1911 a, p. 108. 



Male (Fig. 338) : Scutum about 22 x 1'6 inm.\ yellow, flat, broadest 

 towards the posterior end, coarsely pitted except along certain ridge- 



Fig. 338. H. papuana s , dorsum and venter ; ? capitulum and scutum ; j and ? 

 spiracles. Specimen from Borneo. Warburton, 1908, Fig. 4. E. Wilson del. 



like tracts where punctations are absent ; festoons about as broad 

 as long, the intervals often dark and broadening distally ; cervical 



' The following measurements, in mm., relate to 20 i from various sources : 



The size of the <? given by Thorell (about 3x2 mm.) is apparently only roughly 

 approximate and doubtless includes the capitulum. 



