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X. Report on the Amchnida and Mijriopoda collected hij the British Ornithologists 

 Union Exi^edition and the Wollaston Exjyedition in Dutch Ne-w Guinea. By 

 Stanley Hirst, F.Z.S."^ 



[Received March 7, 1914 ; Read April 21, 1914.] 



(Text-figures 14-19.) 



Index. 



Page 

 S3'steinatic : — 



Lcelaps rotJtsddldi, sp. n 325 



Amhlyomma papuana, sp. n 327 



Hwmaphysalis novce-guinece, sp. n 328 



Acanthmlus wollastoni, sp. i: 330 



lihinocricus granti, sp. n 331 



Trigoniulus Jclossi, sp. u. 332 



Class ARACHNIDA. 



Order SCORPIONES. 



Family Scorpionid^. 

 Genus Hormurus Thor. 



IIORMURUS PAPDANUS Krpln. 



Hormurus papuanus Kraepelin, in Sarasin and Roux's Nova Caledonia^ Zoologie^ i. ^. 333 

 (1914). 



Log. Mimika River, South Dutch New Guinea ; nine specimens. 



Division Acari. 



Order MESOSTIGMATA. 



Family G A M A s i D .E. 

 Genus L^laps C. L. Koch. 

 L.ELAFS ROTHSCHILDI, sp. n. (Text-fig. 14.) 



¥ . Body oval in shape. Nearly all the dorsal surface is covered by the scutum, 

 * Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 



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