62 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I28 



1952. Gateria hirsufa Radford, Wharton and Fuller, Mem. Ent. Soc, Washing- 

 ton, No. 4, p. 94. 



1952. Gateria hirsuta Radford, Gunther, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 77, Nos. 1-2, p. 47. 



1952. Gateria hirsuta Radford, Fuller, Zool. Verh., No. 18, p. 217. 



Diagnosis of /arz/a.— Characterized by having the PL setae dis- 

 placed anteriorward, so that they are adjacent to ALs (thereby 

 agreeing with G. gemina, G. dupliseta, and G. plurisetae, new species) 

 and having 8 to lo usurped setae on the scutum. Palpal formula 

 b/h/NNN. Palpal claw 3-pronged. Eyes 2+2. Scutum somewhat 

 pentagonal; about one and a half times as long as broad; broadest at 

 about level of first row of usurped setae, caudally almost angulate. 

 Scutum with micropunctae. Usurped setae arranged 4.2.2 or 4.2.2.2. 

 With about 34 dorsal setae (excluding usurped setae) arranged 

 2.4.4.6.6.4.4.2.2. With about 46 ventral setae, of which true ventrals 

 are about 23 microns in length and postanals 38. 



standard measurements in microns 



^fecq^E^o,^^ ^ P^ PW PW PW 



Holnfvn. * ^a.^'^O.^'^a^Q Coxa II SD -JSB Tarsus III 



Ot£T,^t M ^rl ""^ " "^ " « 72 38-4S .. 0.42 2.7 



^^^" ^'^T 38 S6 44 23 III 9 39 60 3S-46 56/103=0.9 0.42 2.5 105 



• After Fuller in MS. 



t Same data as paratype. 



Type material.—Holotype ex "Suncus (Crocidura) caerulus ful- 

 vocinereus (Anderson)/' a shrew. Manipur, Imphal, Kanglatongbi, 

 April 29, 1945, G. H. Q. (India) Field Typhus Research Team. De- 

 posited in British Museum (Natural History). "A second specimen 

 was taken on the type host from the same area on June 21, 1945, and 

 13 specimens were taken on a mole from the same area on June 22 

 I945-" 



Records and comment.— One specimen examined from Imphal 

 collection through courtesy of J. R. Audy, and presumably the same 

 as that referred to by Womersley (1952) as "No. 61." 



GAHRLIEPIA (GAHRLIEPIA) SADUSKI Womersley, 1952 

 Figures 176-179 



1952. Gahrliepia (Gahrliepia) sadicski Womersley, Rec. South Australia Mus., 



vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, pp. 283, 301-302, pi. 78, figs. H-J. (As Gateria on 



pl. 78.) 

 1952. Gahrliepia sp. Jameson, Keegan, and Toshioka, Parasitic mites found on 



small mammals in Japan and Korea, Office of the Surgeon, Far East 



Command (U. S. Army, Tokyo), p. 11, fig. loC. 

 1954- Gahrliepia (Gahrliepia) saduski Womersley, Sasa and Jameson, Proc. 



California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 28, No. 5, p. 254, fig. 3. 



