400 
Indian Ticks 
Venter. Genital aperture between coxae II; spiracles sub- 
rectangular, more rounded anteriorly; anal groove rather ogival. 
Legs. Coxae I with a rather long blunt spur, coxae II—IV 
unarmed. The second article of leg 1 has a distal retrograde spur both 
dorsally and ventrally, the former blunt, the latter shorter and more 
pointed. Tarsus 4 roundly tapering, pads large. 
Female. Scutum nearly circular, 1'2 x 1-2 mm. Cervical grooves 
deep pits behind the cornua, followed, at a short interval, by broad, 
shallow, nearly parallel depressions extending slightly beyond the 
middle of the scutum. No lateral grooves. Numerous very small 
punctations. 
Fig. 4. Haemaplnjsalis longipalpis, s. Dorsal aspect, 4th tarsus, spiracle and profile 
of palp. 
Fig. 5. Haemaphysalis longipalpis, ? . Capitulum, scutum, profile of palp, and spiracle. 
Capitulum. Base rectangular, twice as broad as long, porose areas 
much longer than broad, very far apart; cornua short and blunt. 
Palps very long, four times as long as broad, nearly cylindrical, armed 
as in the cT, but with the dorsal retrograde spur of article 3 shorter. 
Hypostome 5 | 5, well covered with small teeth, spatulate. 
Venter. Spiracle smaller than in the d' ^>^4 more pointed dorso- 
laterally. 
Legs. As in the 
Described from 10 and 1 $ taken by Mr C. C. Dobell from 
Tragulus merninna, the Mouse Deer, at Colombo, Ceylon, 3, Vlll, 1909. 
This remarkable species, though undoubtedly a Haemaphysalis, has 
the abnormal character of palps much longer than broad. It belongs 
to the H. hispinosa group. 
