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caudad and distant from scutum; about 50 microns and proportion- 

 ately thinner. Dorsal setae about 28 in number ; single or not arranged 

 in rows except for those posterior to scutum, and those in 2 or 3 

 irregular rows. With about 62 ventral setae of which about 24 are 

 postanals. True ventrals about 28 microns; thin; very sparsely 

 plumed. With a suggestion of a small, ovate anal plate about 28 x 19 

 microns (fig. 144, A. P.) surrounding the chitinized anal ring. Legs: 

 As in G. cxilis, new species, but with coxa III much broader, ratio 

 of length to breadth 90 to 75 microns = 1.2 (as measured to apex of 

 caudolateral flange or lobe). Sternal and sensory setae essentially as 

 in G. exilis. 



Type material. — Holotype (No. B-19601) and one paratype ex 

 Rattus alticola alticola Thomas, North Borneo, Mount Trus Madi, 

 Pamang, Ulu Kaingaran, 4,000 feet elevation, July 18, 1953 (J. R. 

 Audy, for joint U. S. Army-Colonial Office Medical Research Unit). 

 Sixteen other paratypes from Mount Kinabalu, Tenompak, 4,200-4,500 

 feet elevation; 11 of these ex 4 Rattus a. alticola, August 12-21, 1953 

 (R. Traub) ; i ex Rattus whiteheadi zvhiteheadi Thomas, August 21 ; 

 I ex Rattus sp., September i, 1953 (R. Traub) ; 2 ex Rattus a. alticola, 

 August 25 (H. D. Newson and B. C. Walton) ; i ex Rattus a. alticola, 

 August 8 (Phang Ang Wah). Holotype (U.S.N.M. No. 2171) and 

 one paratype deposited in U. S. National Museum. One paratype in 

 collection of Colonial Office Medical Research Unit, Kuala Lumpur, 

 and others in that of senior author or distributed among various 

 acarological collections. 



GAHRLIEPIA (GAHRLIEPIA) NANUS (Oudemans, 1910) 

 Figures 151 -158 



1910. Typhlothrombium nanus Oudemans, Ent. Ber. Amsterdam, vol. 3, No. 56, 



p. 105. 



1911. Typhlothrombium nanus Oudemans, Oudemans, Ent. Ber. Amsterdam, 



vol. 3, No. 57, p. 122. 

 1912 Typhlothrombium nanus Oudemans, Oudemans, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. 14, 

 Heft I, pp. 83-86, 192, 203, fig. U. 



1930. Typhlothromhium nanus Oudemans, Stiles and Nolan, Nat. Inst. Healtli 



Bull. 155, pt. I, p. 640. 



1931. Gahrliepia nana (Oudemans), Vitzthum, Zeitschr. Parasitenk., vol. 4, 



No. I, p. 7. 

 1938. Gahrliepia nanus (Oudemans), Ewing, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., 



vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 291-292. 

 1939- Gahrliepia nanus (Oudemans), Abdussalam, Indian Journ. Ent, vol. i, 



No. 3, pp. 83-86. 

 1940. Gahrliepia nanus (Oudemans), Gunther, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 



Wales, vol. 65, pts. 5-6, Nos. 291-292, p. 481. 



