On Land Miles from Sintsber<jen and Bear Island. C21 



spot close to each eyo. Protliorax brown, with an orange- 

 coloured lateral streak, and with an ill-dofined, yellowish, 

 longitudinal, median streak. ]\Ieso- and metathorax orange- 

 coloured, brownish at base of winf!;s. Venter of thorax 

 orange-Coloured. Thoiax with long, orange-coloured pilosity, 

 dorsally and ventrally. Legs brown, with short whitish 

 hairs and long blacki.sh bristles. Abdomen orange-coloured ; 

 tuwuids apex with brown markings. Base of abtlonien 

 whitish-haired ; towards apex short blackish hairs. Wings 

 rather broad, with obtusely rounded apex. Markings pale 

 sooty brown. Membrane of fore wings strongly orange- 

 coloured ; that of hind wing hyaline, with the exception of 

 the pteri stigma and the apical spot, which are orange- 

 coloured. The four cross-bands in fore wing somewhat 

 ti'ssolliileti. Venation ytdlowish ; in the markings brownish 

 red. 



Fore wing 60 mm. ; hind wing 57 mm.; body 4G mm. 



J. ? , Kotakota, Nyasaland, 1911-447 [Dr. J. E. S. Old 



Only the present s])ecimen is known of this peculiar 

 species, whicdi is unlike what I have seen of other species, 

 botli with regard to form and to arrangement of markings, 

 and also to the intensive orange-coloured membrane of the 

 fore wing. I can hardly imagine that this colour is due to 

 any chemical effect of the killing-bottle. 



The specimen is in a rather bad condition ; it has lost its 

 rio-ht fore v;'u\<>: and its antennae. 



Note. — Mr. Herbert Campion has pointed out to me that 

 the generic name ColvhojHerus, E,ambur (Hist. Nat. Ins., 

 Kc'vropt. p. 300), is preoccupied by Colobopierus, Mulsant 

 (Hist. Nat. Coleopt. France, Lamellicornes, p. 165). liam- 

 bur's work was published in the week ending 31st December, 

 1842, that of Mul.-ant about 6th August, 1842. Conse- 

 quently Rambui's name (used in the Ascalaphidse) has to Le 

 changed, and I propose the name Ameroplerua for it. 



LXVIII. — On some Land Miten {A car i) from Spitshergen and 

 Hear Island. Results of the Oxford University Expedition 

 to Sjntsbtr(/en, 1921.— No. 23. By Kev. J. E. Hull, 

 M.A. 



TuE mites collected represent three families : — Thrombidiidfe, 

 6 species; Gamasidte, 1 species ; and OiibatidiH, 5 species. 

 All have been previously recorded as Arctic species, but four 

 Ann. ci- Maq. S. Hist. Sei. 0. Vol. X. 42 



