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coxae with a moderate spur at each postero-internal angle, strongest 
on coxa IV. Tarsi thick and abruptly tapering, almost humped. 
Female unknown. 
Described from a single specimen taken (in company with H. konings- 
bergeri) from Paradoxurus sp. ? by Mr A. T. Stanton in the Malay States, 
and communicated to us by Lieut.-Colonel A. Alcock, C.I.E., F.R.S., 
March, 1909. (Collection of the London School of Tropical Medicine.) 
Haemaphysalis dentipalpis, n. sp. 
Fig. 14. 
Male : body long-oval, 2‘7 x L3 mm., broadest towards the hind end ; 
curved, dull brownish yellow, the front legs, the capitulum and the 
anterior part of the scutum darker. Scutum showing conspicuous pseudo- 
Fig. 14. Haemaphysalis dentipalpis <S . Capitulum, dorsal and ventral aspects. (C. W.) 
scutum, with numerous large, deep punctations ; very fine punctations 
on the anterior portion ; cervical grooves deep and convergent, then faint 
and divergent and visible almost to the posterior border of the pseudo¬ 
scutum ; lateral grooves short, beginning faintly at about half the body 
length, and including two festoons; festoons rather short and broad, with 
straight intervals. Capitulum '6 mm. long; base broader anteriorly, with 
convex sides and rather concave anterior border; cornua strong, rather 
curved; hypostome long, parallel-sided, well covered with 717 very 
small equal teeth; palps long, conical, their dorsal surface concave; 
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