408 Genus Haemaphysalls 



11. HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA Neumann, 1897. 



Figs 842, 343. 



Lit., Synon. and Icon. : 



Haemaphysalis Jlava Neumann, 1897, pp. 333-336, Fig. 3 (digit ; not reproduced) ; 



Neumann, 1901, p. 260 {pro parte). 

 Haemaphysal is flava var. armata Neumann, 1905, pp. 237, 238. 

 Haemaphi/saHs Jlava Neumann in Dnnitz, 1905, ]>p. 129, 130. 

 Uaemaphysalis J(ara Neuuiiinn 1897, in W'arburton, 1908, pp. 510-512, Figs. 1 



and 2 {$ and $ described ; figurets reproduced) ; Blanchard, 1909, p. 151 



(only a few lines). 

 Haemaphysalis Jlava armata Nn. in Neumann 1911a, p. 112 (raised to a 



sub-species of his II. Jlava of which it con.stitutos the type !). 



Nothing can exceed the confusion which has arisen with regard to 

 this species. Neumann's original description (1897) was fairly definite^ 

 but he subsequently (1905) came to the conclusion that two varieties 

 were in existence, and these he interchanged, making the last found 

 form the type, and the original type the variety. Donitz (1905) 

 pointed out that this was inadmissible, and we entirely agree with 

 him. Moreover, Neumann, in identifying specimens, confounded yet 

 other species with H. jiava, for in a tube (No. 137 in the Brit. Mus.) 

 labelled by him H. Jiava, we found three distinct species". Donitz 

 (1905), moreover, found two species* among alleged H. Jlava which 

 Neumann sent him. After reviewing the situation, Warburton (1908) 

 reinstated what appeared to be the original H. jlava and removed two 

 other forms from it under the names of H. japonica and H. campanulata. 



Male (Fig. 342): Colour dull yellow. Scutum 2*1 x 1-4 to 

 2"8 X 19 mm.^, broadest at about the level of the spiracles; punctations 

 numerous, of medium size, regularly distributed ; cervical grooves short, 

 faint, converging, then separating ; lateral grooves short, beginning about 

 at half the body length and ending just behind the spiracles ; festoons 

 long, curved. Capitulum : base rectangular, twice as broad as long, 

 with strong sharp cornua ; palps with article 2 fairly salient, but not 

 sharply angular externally ; lateral contour of articles 2 and 3 

 continuous ; no dorsal spines ; ventral border of article 2 having a 



^ Neumann here specifically mentions the yellow colour and the long-spurred coxa IV 

 of the (? . Donitz (190-5, p. 130) lays stress on the characteristic colour. We would note 

 that the name " armata," chosen by Neumann, refers to the long sharp spur on coxa IV. 



2 Including H. japonica Warburton 1908, H . campanulata Warburton 1908. 



3 H. neumanni Donitz 11)0.5 ( = H. bispinosa Nn. 1897) and H. Jlava Nn. 

 * The second measurement is from (N. 763) specimens from India. 



