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of the rainy season. In summary it may be said that in North Burma 

 and Assam this species was collected relatively infrequently, but only 

 from mammals, and that it exhibited little definite ecological prefer- 

 ence as concerns type of terrain or season, and it was taken in all 

 three of the geographical areas studied. Virtually half of the records 

 were from real shrews or tree shrews. 



Table i. — Hosts and general locality distribution of Gahrliepia (G.) fletcheri 



Geographical location 



f " "*■ s 



Host Ledo Shingbwiyang Myitkyina 



"Shrew" i i 



Crocidtira vorax G. M. Allen 2 



Suncus caerulaeus fiilvocinereus (Anderson) . . 14 4 



Tupaia belangeri versurae Thomas i 2 6 



"Rat" I 



Ratttis f. fidvescens ( Gray ) I 3 



Rattiis flavipectiis yunnanensis (Anderson) . . . i 4 



Ratttis rattus sladeni (Anderson) 14 8 



Total number collections 17 27 19 



Gater called attention to the reluctance of G. fletcheri to leave its 

 host, and stated that it was "the only [chigger] found on some rats 

 which had been dead for twelve hours or more when received." This 

 observation was often repeated in Burma and Malaya. In fact G. flet- 

 cheri would often stay attached to the ears and legs of rats which had 

 been severed and placed in the refrigerator for 48 to 72 hours. 



GAHRLIEPIA (GAHRLIEPIA) CETRATA Gater, 1932 



Figures 167-169 



1932. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Parasitol., vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 165-167, fig. 12. 

 1942. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Radford, Parasitol., vol. 34, No. i, p. 64, 



fig. 35- 

 1943- Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Womersley and Heaslip, Trans. Roy. Soc. South 



Australia, vol. 67, No. i, pp. 138, 140, pi. 13, fig. i. 

 1945. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Buitendijk, Zool. Meded., vol. 24, p. 336. 



1947. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Sig Thor and Willmann, Trombidiidae, Das 



Tierreich, Lfg. 71b, pp. 333-334, fig- 399- 



1948. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Fuller, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 43, No. 4, 



p. 109. 



1952. Gahrliepia (Gahrliepia) cetrata Gater, Womersley, Rec. South Australia 

 Mus., vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, pp. 283, 304, pi. 82, fig. A. 



1952. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Wharton and Fuller, Mem. Ent. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, No. 4, p. 93. 



1952. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Gunther, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 77, Nos. 1-2, p. 46. 



1952. Gahrliepia cetrata Gater, Fuller, Zool. Verb., No. 18, pp. 215-216. (Com- 

 plete redescription based upon holotype and three paratypes.) 



