MTEIOPODA COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



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(practically obsolete), especially anteriorly ; it usually commences a little in front 

 of the middle of the body and reaches as far back as the first festoon. A pair of 

 shallow oblique impressions are present a little in front of the middle of the scutum. 

 Stigmal plate short and rather wide, comma-shaped. Base of capituluin with well- 

 developed cornua. Second segment of palp strongly salient externally and with a 

 large retrograde process below, the inner dorsal edge is somewhat emarginate ; third 

 segment furnished dorsally with a very minute tooth, and it also has a strong- 

 ventral tooth. Hypostome with ten files of denticles. Legs of moderate length and 

 thickness. Coxa of first leg with a short blunt spur; second and third coxse each 

 with an inconspicuous laminate spur ending in a very short point ; spur of fourth 

 coxa exceedingly long and fine. Tarsus of fourth leg rather gradually narrowed and 

 armed below with two little denticles, the one which is placed near the distal end 

 being well developed. Colour brownish yellov/. 

 Length of body 1'9 mm. ; width 1'3 mm. 



Text-figure IG. 



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Hcemaphysalis novce-giiinece, sp. n. A. Basal segments of legs of the male from belu 

 B. Scutum and capitulum of the female. C. Ventral view of male palp. 



$ . Scutum very short oval, its length only slightly exceeding the width. Cervical 

 grooves well marked and almost two-thirds the length of the scutum, posteriorly they 

 are slightly divergent. Punctures numerous and distinct. Porose areas of the ccqn- 

 tulmn very small, oval, and widely separated from one another; a minute and superficial 

 pit is often present midway between them ; cornua short. Palp longer than in the 

 male, the second segment not so salient laterally, the outer angle somewhat turned 

 back dorsally and with a large backwardly-directed process below ; the upper inner 

 edge of this segment is slightly emarginate, except at the apical end, which projects 

 as a slight lobe ; third segment with a strong ventral tooth, but the tooth on the 

 upper surface quite obsolete or absent. Legs : first coxa with a slight inner spur ; 



