Volume VI 
JULY, 1913 
No. 2 
ON FOUR NEW SPECIES AND TWO NEW 
VARIETIES OF THE IXODID GENUS 
HA EM A PEI YSA LIS. 
By CECIL WARBURTON, M.A., F.Z.S., 
Demonstrator to the Quick Professor. 
(From the Quick Laboratory, University of Cambridge.) 
(With 8 Text-figures.) 
The following new species and varieties are dealt with in this 
paper: 
Haemaphysalis aborensis n. sp. ($ ) Yambung, India (Indian Mas. Hr 1 )- 
„ howletti n. sp. (</ $) Rawalpindi, India (N. 1979). 
„ aciculifer n. sp. (f $) Uganda (Eut. Res. Coin. 463 a). 
„ kinneari n. sp. ( $ ) Kanara, India (N. 1997). 
„ cornigera var. anomala n. var. (f) India (Indian Mus. 
HP a). 
„ inermis var. aponommoides n. var. ($) Belgachia, Cal¬ 
cutta, India (N. 1566). 
Introduction. 
The examination of a vast number of ticks, collected in late years 
from various hosts in many parts of the world, has resulted in the 
addition of several new species to the genus Haemaphysalis. Though 
only 13 of the species admitted by Neumann in his “ Revision” (Pt. II, 
1897) still stand, the number of recognised good species now reaches 43. 
Just as Rhipicephalus is proper to Africa, so Haemaphysalis is 
essentially Asiatic, and the Indian region has furnished most of the 
newly discovered forms. One of the new species described below is 
African, the remainder being additions to the Indian fauna. 
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