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article 2 much longer than 3 and with five retrograde projections, 2 dorsal 
and 3 ventral, best understood by reference to the figures; three simple 
dark hairs on the internal margin of article 2 ; a strong retrograde spine 
under article 3. Venter : spiracle very large, pear-shaped, with the 
narrower end dorsal; anal groove ogival. Legs : long, hairy, coxae like 
those of H. Jconingsbergeri, with a short conical spur at each postero¬ 
internal angle. Tarsi rather thick, abruptly tapering. 
Female unknown. 
Described from 4 J 1 taken (in company with H. honing sbergeri ) from 
Paradoxurus sp.? by Mr A. T. Stanton in the Malay States, and communi¬ 
cated to us by Lieut.-Colonel A. Alcock, C.I.E., F.R.S. (Collection of 
the London School of Tropical Medicine.) 
Haemaphysalis spinieeps, n. sp. 
Fig. 15. 
Male : body long-oval, 2'7 x 13 mm., broadest near the middle, 
glossy yellow-brown, darker on the sides and on the pseudoscutum. 
Scutum with large deep punctations anteriorly, some of them confluent 
and indicating by their distribution a pseudoscutum; punctations very 
small and numerous on the hinder portion ; cervical grooves well marked, 
broad, nearly parallel; lateral grooves almost obsolete, only recognisable 
in the neighbourhood of the spiracles; festoons medium, punctate; 
Fig. 15. Haemaphysalis spinieeps 3 . Capitulum, dorsal and ventral aspects, 
coxae. (C. W.) 
