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New Species of Ticks 
absence of a spur under article 2 of the palp ; the very slight coxal 
armature; and the absence of trochantal spurs. 
Described from a single $ taken from a tiger at Kadra, Kanara, 
India (Bombay Nat. Hist. Mammal Survey), by N. B. Kinnear (after 
whom it is named), in Nov., 1910, in company with some ill-characterised 
H. bispinosa, and with Amblyomma prolongation. 
Type in the Quick Laboratory, Cambridge (N. 1997). 
Haemaphysalis cornigera var. anomala n. var. 
Male : Closely resembles the type except in the following respects : 
The 3rd article of the palps not projecting laterally (hence anomala). 
Basis capituli somewhat narrower compared with its length ; spiracle 
more pointed dorso-laterally. 
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Fig. 7. II. cornigera var. anomala , dorsal and ventral aspects of capitulum. 
(N. Cunliffe, del.) 
Female : Unknown. 
The most remarkable characteristics of H. cornigera —the presence 
of two divergent spines under article 3 of the palps, and of a double 
spine on coxa IV—are repeated in this variety. 
Described from a single </ taken from a wolf, four miles west of 
Koderma Station, Chota Nagpur, India, by Major 0. A. Smith, 
VIII. 1912. In its company were specimens of H. bispinosa var. 
intermedia , H. leachi, and Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides. 
Type in the Indian Museum, 1 jf-a. 
Haemaphysalis inermis var. aponommoides n. var. 
Male : Unknown. 
Female. Scutum : Broader than long (1 x T4 mm.), broadest at 
the anterior and much more narrowed posteriorly than in the type; 
glossy, but with numerous discrete, medium-sized punctations; cervical 
grooves broad sub-parallel tracts without any initial pits; emargination 
slight. 
