58 New Species of Ixodidae, etc. 
In this paper we describe the following new species 3 
1. Ixodes fecicdis ( $ ) 
2. Ixodes fecialis var. aegrifossus ( $ ) 
3. Haemaphysalis humerosa ( f % ) 
4. „ proximo, ($) 
5. „ lioodi %) 
6. „ doenitzi %) 
7. ,, koningsbergeri (f $) 
8. „ vidua (</) 
9. „ dentipalpis (</) 
10. „ spiniceps (f) 
11. „ bispinosa var. inter¬ 
media ( $) 
Origin. 
Our cata¬ 
logue No. 
Australia 
650 
Australia 
339 
Australia 
609 
Sumatra 
540 c 
Gambia 
424 
Singapore 
635 
Java 
496 c 
Malaya j Collection of the 
Malaya > London School of 
MalayaJ Tropical Medicine. 
India 
515 a and 327 
Ixodes fecialis, n. sp. 
Figs. 1 and 2. 
Male unknown. 
Female (gorged): body long, cylindrical, 8x4 mm., dark brown, with 
yellow scutum, capitulum and legs. Scutum 2 rather longer than broad 
(1'5 x 1‘3 mm.), broadest near the posterior end ; uniformly punctate 
except along the cervical grooves, which are otherwise faintly marked; 
the sides straight and diverging posteriorly ; lateral grooves indicated by 
a prominent ridge of darker colour, sparsely punctate and parallel with 
the lateral border; scapulae blunt; emargination moderate. Dorsum 
minutely punctate, and thickly studded, especially in the posterior 
portion, with very short white hairs. Capitulum : base, a triangle, 
longer than broad, with wing-like lateral projections hollowed dorso- 
laterally to receive the palps; porose areas long-oval, rather near 
together, very close to the posterior border, which is somewhat sinuous; 
palps medium, fiat, the second article twice as long as the third; hypo- 
stome truncate, with parallel sides, 2|2 equidistant files of stout teeth, 9 
per file. Venter: vulva between coxae IV ; spiracle rather small, trans¬ 
verse oval, somewhat pointed dorsally, far from coxae IV ; anal groove 
1 The form of description is in accordance with others that we have published (Nuttall 
and Warburton, 1907, p. 392), unessential details being rigidly excluded. 
2 Recalling a conventional form of heraldic shield, hence fecialis. 
