H. cornigera var. anoinala and H. dentlpaljns 505 



The most remarkable characteristics of H. cornigera — the presence 

 of two divergent spines under article 3 of the palps, and of a double 

 spine on coxa IV — are repeated in this variety. 



Described from a single cT taken from a ivolf, four miles west 

 of Koderma Station, Chota Nagpur, India, viil. 1912, by Major 

 O. A. Smith. In its company were specimens of H. hispinosa var. 

 intermedia, H. leachi and Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides. 



Type in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (No. 1524/17 a). 



42. HAEMAPHYSALIS DENTIPALPIS Warburton 



and Nuttall, 1909. 



Fig. 447. 



Lit. and Icon. : Warburton and Nuttall, 1909, pp. 67-68, Fig. 14 (reproduced). 



Male (Fig. 447) : Body long-oval, 2'7 x 1*3 mm., broadest towards 

 the hind end; colour, dull brownish-yellow, the front legs, the capitulum 

 and the anterior part of the scutum darker. Scutum: showing con- 

 spicuous pseudo-scutum, with numerous large, deep punctations ; very 

 fine punctations on the anterior portion ; cervical grooves deep and 

 convergent, then faint and divergent and visible almost to the posterior 

 border of the pseudo-scutum ; lateral grooves short, beginning faintly 



Fig. 447. H. dentipalpis <? , capitulum in dorsal and ventral aspects. Sketch by C. W. 

 Warburton and Nuttall, 1909, Fig. 14. 



