254 C. D. SOAR ON THE WORK OF THE LATE SAVILLE-KENT 



Saville- Kent's own notes. A great number were perfectly use- 

 less, the medium in which they were mounted having leaked out 

 and dried up. In some the objects were completely hidden by 

 mildew, which had taken the place of the mounting medium 

 inside the cell, and in some cases the covers had become loose and 

 the contents lost. The mounts included adults, nymphs, larvae 

 and eggs. Of the adults I Avas able to identify forty species. 

 Quite thirteen of these had never even been named until long 

 after Saville-Kent had found them, and all but one of these 

 names were given by writers on the Continent, the exception 

 being Arrhenurus mantonensis George, 1903. There were several 

 slides of ova and larvae, many of which were particularly interest- 

 ing ; there w^ere also a few slides of the internal anatomy, some 

 of the sections being very nicely mounted, and in one or two 

 cases stained. The collections were made from a number of places 

 round London, some of which would now^ be described as within 

 London. The Commons were Barnes, Tooting and Wandsworth. 

 Then there is a Common mentioned between Shepherd's Bush 

 and Hammersmith ; I cannot call this Common to mind, unless 

 it is what is known as Brook Green. Other places were Bushey, 

 Kew and Kensington Gardens (Round Pond) ; also Chertsey, 

 Regent's Canal, Wormwood Scrubs, Hampstead Heath, Kew 

 Dyke (which must be the ditch between the towing-path and the 

 wall of Kew Gardens), Harrow Road Pond, pond near Perivale 

 Church, Acton, and Epping Forest. Several of the collections, 

 particularly those from Chertsey and Bushey Park, were made 

 by Dr. Braithwaite. All the species have been recorded by later 

 writers from collections made in Britain since Saville-Kent's time, 

 with two exceptions, namely, Arrhenurus Jimhriatus Koen., and 

 Acercus torris Miill. 



Drawings. A great many of the above preparations had been 

 drawn. Some were simply notes in outline of parts for identifica- 

 tion and variations of structure, some were finished coloured 

 figures of the adults, larvae, or nymphs. No doubt all the 

 coloured drawings were made from the living mites ; one series 

 represented the diflferent methods of egg-attachment, and others 

 were beautifully coloured drawings of sections of internal 

 structure. Very few, however, had been finished enough for 

 publication, not enough attention having been given to the 



