980 



MR, STANLEY HIRST ON 



Length of body (not including capitulum) -94 mm. ; its Avidth 

 •65 mm. 



Host : A fruit-bat (Epomophoriis minor) from Zanzibar ; a 

 single specimen (tbe type) from this host. Also specimens 

 probably referable to tbe same species of mite from tbe following 

 hosts and localities : — 3Iicroptero]nis pusillus, Gambia {Dr. P. 

 Rendall). From a fruit-bat, Damba .Island, Lake Victoria 

 {Dr. G. D. H. Carj)enter). 



Text-fioure 7. 



Ancystropiis athiopicus, sp. n.? $ . Ventral view. 



Note. — It is possible that Kolenati's A . mulleri from Pteropus 

 vulgaris {= Pteropus nigerV) is allied to the species described 

 above under the name A. cethiopicus or perhaps even identical 

 with it. The bat, Pteropus vulgaris, however, only occurs in the 

 Mascarenes, Reunion, and Mauritius. 



