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New Species of lxodidae, etc. 
cervical grooves extending about two-thirds the length of the scutum, at 
first deep and convex outwardly, then superficial and curving outwards. 
Capitulum: base sub-rectangular, with rather convex sides and very 
slight cornua; porose areas long-oval, far apart, converging anteriorly. 
Hypostome 414, ten or eleven teeth per file. Palps much like those of 
</. Venter: spiracle ovate, the pointed end dorsal. Legs: coxae 
normal, tarsus IV longer and less abruptly tapering than in the <£. 
Described from 2 and 2 $ sent by Dr J. C. Koningsberger of 
the Zoological Museum at Buitenzorg, Java, in 1908. Its host was 
Felis pardus. 
Haemaphysalis vidua, n. sp. 
Fig. 13. 
Male : 1-8x1 '1 mm., yellow, oval, broadest in the middle. Scutum 
with very numerous shallow punctations ; cervical grooves deep oval pits 
with shallow divergent posterior continuations; no lateral grooves. 
Capitulum short ( - 3 mm.); base rectangular, comparatively long, with 
short blunt cornua ; hypostome with large crown followed by 4 4 rather 
scale-like teeth, few in number, about 30 in all; palps with articles 2 
and 3 about equal in length, and with article 2 salient near its distal 
end, and forming a sinuous contour with article 3 ; a ventral retrograde 
spur from the outer border of article 3. Venter: spiracle oval, with 
slight dorsal prominence; anal groove ogival. Legs not very strong; 
Fig. 13. Haemaphysalis vidua S . Dorsum, coxae, spiracle, tarsus IV. (C. W.) 
