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New Species of Ticks 
Female : Scutum: Much longer than broad (14 x 0‘7 mm.), long- 
oval, of nearly uniform width throughout, strongly and deeply punctate, 
the punctations more or less confluent on the lateral fields; cervical 
grooves beginning as pits at some distance from the anterior border, and 
continuing as shallow depressions for about § of the scutal length. 
Capitulum : Much like that of H. campanulata ; porose areas oval 
and far apart, with a median depression between them ; dentition 5 5, 
teeth very sinali and confined to the distal part of the hypostome. 
Fig. 2. H. howletti <? , capitulum, scutum, profile of capitulum, anus, coxae and spiracle. 
(N. Cunliffe, del.) 
Fig. 3. 11. howletti ? , capitulum, scutum, coxae and trochanters, anus, tarsus IY and 
spiracle. (N. Cunliffe, del.) 
Dorsum closely and deeply punctate all over ; tarsi tapering. 
Described from 1 and 1 $ taken by F. M. Howlett from a hill pony 
at Rawalpindi, India (no date). 
This species is very near H. campanulata. It is, however, smaller 
and much more punctate, and has quite a different hypostome, that of 
H. campanulata being well-covered with 4 | 4 large teeth. The different 
shape of the female scutum, and the tapering tarsi in both sexes, will 
also serve to distinguish it from that species. 
The types are in the Quick Laboratory, Cambridge (N. 1979). 
