Published Online:1 Jan 1948https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00411752_432
Abstract
The scale-mites of South African lizards have been studied by Hirst in 1925 (F. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. XXXVI) and Lawrence in 1935 and 1936 (Parasitology, vols. XXVII, XXVIII). Since this time a number of new forms have accumulated in the collections of the Natal and Transvaal Museums, most of them taken by Dr V. FitzSimons, Director of the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria; these, as well as a number of new records, are described in the following pages. The opportunity has also been used to include a description of two new species of trombiculid larval mites presented by Dr A. Loveridge, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, from the common and widespread African skink, Riopa sundevallii.
