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4-5 pairs of long setae laterad to epigynial and anal plates. Metapodal plates 

 elongate oval, twice as long as wide. Peritreme reaching middle of coxa I. Coxae I, 

 II and III each with spinelike setae. 



MALE: Unknown; three males included in the series were found on the same 

 host but they are not described here. 



Fig. 34. Echinolaelaps insignis, female: A, anterior portion of dorsal plate; 

 B, posterior portion of dorsal plate; C, venter. 



Holotype. Female, ex Rattus panglima Robinson, Tigoplan, 

 Brooke's Point, Palawan, April 30, 1947 (F. G. Werner). In the 

 Chicago Natural History Museum collection. 



Paratypes. Nine females, same data as holotype. Palawan: 

 Calamianes Island Group, San Pedro, Culion Island, March 29, 1947 

 (H. Hoogstraal), 20 females, ex Rattus panglima. Puerto Princesa, 

 April 10, 1947 (H. Hoogstraal), 7 females, ex Rattus panglima Robin- 

 son. Calamianes Island Group, Siuk, Culion Island, April 7, 1947 

 (M. Celestino), 3 females, ex Rattus panglima Robinson. One in the 

 United States National Museum. 



Genus HAEMOLAELAPS Berlese, 1910 



Haemolaelaps bibbyi Strandtmann and Hunt. Figure 35, A-C. 



Haemolaelaps bibbyi Strandtmann and Hunt, 1950, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 52, 

 (2), p. 85 (male, female, deutonymph, ex Rattus frugivorus; Samar; illus.). 



The female of this species is readily distinguished by the structure 

 of the gnathosoma, the large metapodal plates, and the dorsal setae 



