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cept for region beyond PLs, which bears a few ovate pits. PLs moved 

 anteriorward, quite close to ALs and well anterior to line of SB. PLs 

 about thrice as long as ALs and much stouter. Palpal setal formula 

 B/B/NNb. Palpal claw 2-pronged (not clear in holotype). Eyes 

 double; posterior eye almost vestigal. PPW-i is about 154 microns; 

 PPW-2, 124; PPP-i, 139; PPP-2, 48; PPL-i and PPL-2, about 

 56 microns in length. With about 36 to 44 long, stout, well-ciliated j 

 dorsal setae, which in holotype, according to Womersley, are arranged j 

 2.4.8.8.8.8.6 (excluding usurped setae). With 2 rows of 4 setae be- 

 tween coxae III and with about 40 additional ventral setae, of which 

 about 16 are postanals. True ventrals about 20 microns; postanals 

 about 42 microns in length. Coxa III very broad ; ratio of length to | 

 breadth is 1.07. j 



I 



STANDARD MEASUREMENTS IN MICRONS j 



^Q.to^a,\;^ n, Q Coxa II SD ASB Tarsus III I 



Holotype* 40 59 34 25 218 12 28 98 60-84 ... 0.24 0.24 



Others: 



r,^^^^ , 39 67 32 24 211 16 47 106 52-104 63/74=0.92 0.28 0.28 67/64=0.06 



Range + or -.... 4 8 3 i 10 4 3 6 0.08 0.04 0.04 0.06 



* After Womersley, modified so as to delete decimals. 



Type material. — Unique holotype ex Rattus sabanus, Malaya, Se- 

 langor, Ulu Langat Forest Reserve, November i8, 1949 (J. R. Audy, 

 for Colonial Office Medical Research Unit). 



Records and comment. — Three specimens ex type locality, viz, 

 I ex Rattus sabanus, September 6, 1951 (R. Traub, for U. S. Army 

 Medical Research Unit) ; i ex Rattus sp., July 29, 1950 (J. R. 

 Audy) ; i ex Rattus miilleri, September 4, 1951 (J. R. Audy). 



GAHRLIEPIA (GAHRLIEPIA) DECORA Womersley, 1952 



Figures 180-182 



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

 vol. 10, Nos. 1-2, pp. 283, 303-304, pi. 80, figs. A-D. 



Diagnosis of larva.— A scrobiculate species with 4 submarginal 

 usurped setae, and in which the scrobiculi on the scutum are subovate 

 pits three to four times the diameter of the setal bases and are evenly 

 distributed posterior to SB. Scrobiculi usually separated from one 

 another by a distance equivalent to about three to four times their 

 diameters. Scutum broadly tongue-shaped. PLs moved forward to 

 near ALs so that they are in a line slightly anterior to SB; more than 

 thrice as long as ALs and also much stouter, heavily pinnatifid. 

 PPW-i and PPW-2 both 121 microns. PPP-i is 134 microns; 



