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the intervals dark and mostly straight. Capitulum - G mm. long; base 
broadly rectangular, with convex sides and strong cornua; slightly 
punctate; hypostome long, parallel-sided; well-covered with 5\5 
small teeth ; palps of remarkable form; article 2 strongly salient about 
the middle of its length and with five spatulate white hairs on its inner 
margin; article 8 with a strong, sharp, lateral spine and with a similar 
ventral retrograde spine directed downwards and outwards. Venter: 
spiracle very large and short comma-shaped ; anal groove slightly ogival. 
Legs strong; coxa I prominent in front and with a strong spur at its 
postero-internal angle; coxa II with a blunt spur; a conical tooth about the 
middle of the posterior border of coxa III; two long spurs on coxa IV 
the inner the longer. Tarsi tapering, pad long. 
Female unknown. 
Described from a single specimen collected by Mr H. C. Pratt in 
the Malay States (host not recorded), and communicated to us by Lieut.- 
Colonel A. Alcock, C.I.E., F.R.S., in March, 1909. (Collection of the 
London School of Tropical Medicine.) 
Haemaphysalis bispinosa var. intermedia, n. var. 
Fig. 16. 
We received from Mr E. E. Green a specimen of Haemaphysalis taken 
by him from cattle at Matara, Ceylon, which, though very near H. 
bispinosa, seemed to differ from that species in important respects. Two 
Fig. 16. Haemaphysalis bispinosa var. intermedia ?. Capitulum and scutum, tarsus IV, 
spiracle, palp in ventral aspect. (C. W.) 
other specimens (dry) taken from a cat at Agra, India, and sent by Dr 
E. H. Hankin in September, 1907. were evidently the same form. We 
were, therefore, led to revise our numerous specimens of H. bispinosa, and 
we found that two tubes, received from Lieut.-Colonel C. E. Nuthall, in 
