DELFINADO: LAELAPTOID MITES OF THE PHILIPPINES 99 



MALE: Unknown, though four males were found on the same host and are 

 so labeled. 



Holotype. Female, ex Rattus everetti. Mindanao: Mount Apo, 

 6400 ft. elevation, Davao, November 8, 1946 (H. Hoogstraal). In 

 the Chicago Natural History Museum collection. 



Paratypes. Three females, same data as holotype. One in the 

 United States National Museum collection. 



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Fig. 31. Echinolaelaps echidninus, female: A, anterior portion of dorsal plate; 

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



Genus ECHINOLAELAPS Ewing, 1929 



Echinolaelaps echidninus (Berlese). Figure 31, A-C. 



Laelaps (Iphis) echidninus Berlese, 1887, Acari Myriapoda et Scorpiones, fasc. 



39, nr. 1, t. 50, figs. 1-4. 

 Laelaps (Laelaps) echidninus Berlese, 1887, Vitzthum, 1926, Treubia, 8: 56 



(female, ex Paradoxurus hermaphroditus; Java; illus.). 



The female of this species is characterized by the lightly sculp- 

 tured dorsum, the greatly expanded epigynial plate between setae II 

 and III, and the shallow emargination of the posterior margin of the 

 sternal projection. The anal plate is about as long as wide, sculp- 

 tured as figured, and rounded anteriorly, fitting closely into the 



