NEW PARASITIC MITES. 



791 



stouter than the rest. A pair of spinules are present at tlie 

 distal end of the tarsi of the three posterior pairs of legs. 



Length of body (not including capitulum), $ ■Qb--%1 mm, ; 

 J '57 mm. 



Host : Spalax montlcola thermccictis. Doiran, Macedonia. 

 Several specimens collected by Dr. James Waterston (24. x 

 1918). 



Text-fiojure 33. 



Lijponysitif! macedonicu.i, sp. n., 9 ■ Ventral view. 



LiPONYSSUS FLAVus Kolenuti. (Text-figs. 34, 35.) 



Dermanissus fiavus Kolenati, Parasit. Chiropt. 1857, p. 19. 

 Liponi/ssus lohatus Oudemans, Tijdschr. iSTed. Dierk. A'^er. 

 1904, (2), pp. 18-22, pi. i. figs. 3-17. 



2 . A little before the posterior end the dorsal shield becomes 

 narrowed, but the tip is not pointed but widely rounded off 

 (almost truncated) as in L. carnifex. Hairs on its surface very 

 short and fine ; they are not numeious and are distributed as 

 shown in the figure. Hairs on uncovered part of dorsum very 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1921, No. LIII. 53 



