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TYPE: Holotype female ex Anourosorex squa- 
mipes, 10 miles east of Wu-She (6,400 ft eleva- 
tion), Nan -Ton Prefecture, Taiwan, 19 October 
1963. Paratype females: one with same data as 
type; one from type host and type locality, 25 
July 1963; one from type host, Ali Shan, Chia I 
Prefecture, 19 February 1965; three females ex 
Soriculus fumidus, Ali Shan, Chia I Prefecture, 
19 February 1965. All collected by the author. 
Holotype deposited in the U. S. National Mu- 
seum. Paratypes deposited in the Bernice P. 
Bishop Museum, the Queensland Institute for 
Medical Research, and the Rocky Mountain 
Laboratory. 
Haemolaelaps himizu, n. sp. 
DORSUM ( Fig. 2 A) : Dorsal plate ovoid 
(wider posteriorly), with 41 pairs of minute 
setae (caudalmost dorsal setae are somewhat 
longer ) . Dorsal plate with several short grooves 
or fissures between caudalmost dorsal setae. Soft 
parts with 4 pairs of setae. 
VENTER (Fig. 2 F): Sternal plate (Fig. 2 
C) with anteriormost setae barely on plate; an- 
terior margin slightly and irregularly convex. 
Sternal setae long, projecting beyond base of 
posteriorly adjacent setae. Epigynial plate ex- 
panded posteriorly almost to distance between 
coxae IV. Anal plate (Fig. 2 D) wider than 
epigynial plate, wider than long; and with anus, 
anal and adanal setae on caudal half of anal 
plate. Anal plate distinctly concave on anterior 
margin. Coxae and legs rather stout. Peritremal 
plate not with a detached sclerite extending 
around coxa IV. 
GNATHOSOMA (Fig. 2 B ) : Deutosternum 
with six rows of teeth, each row of two (some- 
times one) teeth. Chela (Fig. 2 E) with a cir- 
clet of six to eight hyaline hairs subtending the 
movable digit; a single hair at the base of the 
fixed digit. Tectum folded at anterior margin so 
that it is three-lobed (or apparently so). 
TYPE: Holotype female ex Urotrichus tal- 
poides Temminck, from Ohara, Kyoto-Fu, Hon- 
shu, Japan; 6 March 1952. Paratypes, from type 
host: one female, Hanase, Kyoto-Fu, 10 June 
1952; one female, Hanase, Kyoto-Fu, 1 August 
1952. All collected by the author. Two addi- 
tional females, not designated as paratypes, from 
"Camp Fuji” (lower slopes of Mt. Fuji). Holo- 
type deposited in the U. S. National Museum. 
One paratype in Bernice P. Bishop Museum; 
one paratype in collection of the author. The 
two additional specimens are in the collection of 
the Department of Entomology, Walter Reed 
Army Medical Hospital. 
The name himizu is the Japanese name for 
the host. 
COMMENT: The occurrence of these two 
related parasites on Taiwan shrews and a Japa- 
nese shrew-mole suggests that additional allied 
species of Haemolaelaps may occur on the Chi- 
nese mainland on the complex of soricoid 
insectivores. 
REFERENCE 
Domrow, Robert. 1964. The ulysses species- 
group, genus Haemolaelaps (Acarina, Lae- 
lapidae ) . Proc. Linnean Soc. N.S. W. 89(1): 
155-162. 
