H. cornigera 



501 



(the same account as the foregoing, but condensed) ; Blau chard, 1909, p. 150, 



Fig. 185 (species merely listed ; figures taken from Neumann). 

 Haemaphysalis spiniceps Warburton and Xuttall, v. 1909, p. 68, Fig. 15 {^ 



reproduced). Through a typographical error the measurements of the 



^ are wrongly given. 

 Haemaphysalis pro.vima Warburton and Nuttall, v. 1909, p. 61, Fig. 6 ($ not 



reproduced). 



Male (Figs. 441-444) : Scutum long-oval, 3x2 ram., broadest near 

 the middle, glossy yellow-brown, darker at the sides and on the 

 pseudo-scutum, with large deep punctations anteriorly, some of them 

 confluent and indicating by their distribution a pseudo-scutum ; puncta- 



Fig. 441. H. cornigera <? , dorsum, part of venter, spiracle and tarsus IV. Specimen 

 from Borneo, co-type (N. 2883). Original, G. H. F. N. del. 



tions very small -and numerous on the hinder portion ; cervical grooves 

 well-marked, broad, nearly parallel ; lateral grooves almost obsolete, only 

 recognisable in the neighbourhood of the spiracles; festoons medium, 

 punctate, the intervals dark and mostly straight. Capitulum : 0"6 mm. 

 long; base broadly rectangular, slightly punctate, with convex sides 

 and strong cornua ; hypostome long, parallel-sided, well-covered with 

 5 I 5 small teeth ; palps of remarkable form ; article 2 strongly salient 

 at about the middle of its length and with five spatulate hairs on its 

 inner margin ; article 3 with a strong, sharp lateral spine and with 

 a similar ventral retrograde spine directed downwards and outwards. 

 Venter : spiracle very large and short comma-shaped ; anal grooves 

 slightly ogival. Legs : strong ; coxa I prominent in front and with 



