NEW PARASITIC MITES. I b-) 



(S . Ventrcd iilate, with reticulate markings and rather iiairow, 

 being scarcely widened posteiiorly ; there are eighteen hairs on 

 it arranged in nine pairs and also an unpaired posterior haii-. 

 The usual strong anterior spur is present on the second coxa. 

 There is also a rather sti'ong curved spine on the anterior margin 

 of the third coxa. Bristles on legs mostly fine and none of them 

 are very stout. Peritreme reaching the first coxa. 



Note. — The male is described from specimens from the Sudan 

 only. 



Zeiigr^A of body (not including capitulum), $ "61 rhm. (distended 

 female specimens up to "98 mm.) ; S ■43-*45 mm. 



Hosts : Elephant shrew, Ohiromo, Ruo River, Nyasaland, 

 1916 {R. C. Wood); ex Coll. of the Imperial Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. Also off bats at Singa, Sennar Province, Sudan, 1913 

 {Cajji. W. E. Marshall); ex the Hon. N. C. Rothschild's coll. 



Text-figure 28. 



a. Lipnnyssus sch(rhiiiS,s\}.-a., 9- Dorsal viow. 



b. Uponyssus bJancIiardi Tronessart, $ . Dorsal view. 



LiPONYSSUS .sciURiNUS, sp. n. (Text-figs. 28 a, 29.) 



2 . Body oval, being widest some distance before the posterior 

 end, sometimes it is slightly bilobed posteriorly. Dorsal sliield 

 large and undivided, being shaped as shown in text-fig. 28 «, 

 posteriorly it is evenly narrowed, the end being bluntly pointed. 

 Hairs in middle of this shield exceedingly minute and fine, even 



