4:bS Genus Haemaphy sails 



Southern France ; a (/ from St Jean-de-Luz, near the Spanish border, a 

 % from Belesta, Ariege ; 33 </, 22 $ (Simon coll.) and 1 $ from 

 sheep (R. Blanchard coll.) being from undetermined places. 

 Biology : see p. 542. 



27. HAEMAPHYSALIS SIMPLEX Neumann, 1897. 



Figs. 394-397. 



Lit. and Icon. : Neumann, 1897, pp. 345, 346, Figs. 10-12 (drawn from balsam- 

 mounted specimens ; reproduced by us) ; Donitz, 1907, p. 70 (quotes Neu- 

 mann) ; Blanchard, 1909, p. 157 (species listed) ; Neumann, 1911 a, p. Ill, 

 Figs. 55, 56 (taken from author's earlier paper). 



Male (Figs. 394-397) : Scutum cinnamon yellow, elongate, 

 1"8 X 1"0 mm., ovate, very convex, glossy, with very minute shallow 

 punctations, distributed all over, also on the festoons ; cervical grooves 

 shallow, sub-parallel ; lateral grooves practically absent ; festoons, 

 especially the anterior festoon, broad, involving an unusual proportion 

 of the body periphery. Capitulum small ; base with very slight 

 bluntly rounded cornua ; palps with article 2 strongly salient laterally ; 

 articles 2 and 3 of equal length, without dorsal spurs ; a small sharp 

 ventral spur under article 3 ; hypostome spatulate, dentition 4 | 4, 

 about 8 iiles of uniform fairly strong teeth. Venter : spiracle large, 

 with a slight dorsal process ; a large proportion (nearly half of the 

 body) lies posterior to coxa IV. Legs short and thick ; coxae I very 

 small, with slight blunt spur; coxae III and IV very broad (antero- 

 posteriorly), \\dth short blunt spurs'; the dorsal spur on trochanter I 

 almost obsolete ; the other trochanters unarmed ; tarsi short, thick, 

 humped, without ventral spur; pad almost as long as the claws. 



Female : unknown. 



Nymph : body Oo mm. long, corresponding in form and colour 

 to the (/. Scutum rounded, extending almost to half the body-length. 

 Capitulum : hypostome 3 j 3, with 6 or 7 stout teeth per file. Palps 

 and Legs as in the (/. 



Our description of the cT is based on a co-type kindly presented 

 by Prof. Neumann from his type material which originally consisted 



1 Neumann's figure, here reproduced as Fig. 396, does not agree with his text, which 

 reads "Coxae contiguous, without spurs; a simple, almost obsolete tuberosity at the 

 postero-intemal angle." 



