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like. Legs slender with clavate joints. Many hairs on legs imbricated. 

 Abd. almost globular, 2 rows of curved, black, imbricated hairs on Dors. 

 ofAbd., and a pair on post, margin. -- Nph. Light flaxen, polished. Psstg. 

 org. long, curved, setiform, often have particles of matter attached. Abd. 

 oval with bifid point posteriorly from which spring 2 long hairs, a pair of 

 long, black hairs on ant. margin and 2 rows on Dors, of Abd. Cast shrunk 

 skins of Dors, of Abd. carried concentrically on hind part of Abd. Im. 

 L. ca. 650 )u. 



In thatch and moss. England. Italy. 



15. D. tenuipes Michael 1885 D. t., Michael in: J. R. micr. Soc., ser. 2 v. 5 

 p. 395 t. 7 f. 10 | 1888 D. t., Michael. Brit. Orib.. v.2 p. 420 t. 36 | 1896 Belba t., 

 Berlese, A. M. S., Crypt. II p. 39. 



Im. Brown with a purplish shade, often dusted with white powder. 

 Cephth. very like D. tecticola, but projection between legs 1 and 2 rounded 

 and without anterior point. Psstg. org. short with rod-like peduncle 

 and rough bluntly conical head. Legs very long and slender, pair 4 

 twice as long as body. Abd. almost globular. Hairs on Dors, of Abd. 

 black, almost straight, deminishing in length from before backward. - - Nph. 

 Like that of D. tecticola but legs longer. Psstg. org. like those of Im. and 

 cast skins of Dors, of Abd. earned not flat but in a pyramid, supported by 

 an internal column. - - Im. L. ca. 670 |u. 



In thatch. England. 



16. D. verticillipes Nic. ? 1840 Nothrus pollinosus, C. L. Koch, C. M. A., 

 fuse. 29 1. 12 (Nph. aut Im.) | 1855 Damaeus verticillipes, Nicolet in: Arch. Mus. Paris, 

 v.7 p. 462 t. 8 f. 2 | ?1888 D.v., Michael, Brit. Orib., v. 2 p. 412 t. 37. 



Im. Usually covered with white or grey powder; when cleaned dark 

 red-brown, smooth not polished. Cephth. with large, lat., trifid projection 

 bearing leg 2. Psstg. near together, trumpet-shaped. Psstg. org. long 

 setiform with undulated distal ends, often matted up or broken. Intlam. 

 hair setiform, curved ; a shorter more curved hair on outside of each Psstg. 

 Legs short for genus; joints with thin proximal ends and sudden, almost 

 globular, enlargements; each joint with a whorl of curved hairs. Abd. 

 almost globular without markings; projecting points between legs. 2 hairs 

 standing forward from ant. margin, 2 rows of hairs on Dors, of Abd. Cast 

 skins of Dors, of Abd. often carried, earliest posteriorly. - Nph. Very like 

 Im., but yellowish white, soft, very finely reticulated ; legs a little shorter. Abd. 

 a little longer than Irn. Hairs on Dors, of Abd. black. - - Im. L. ca. 360 |u. 



Berlese (1896, A. M. S., Crypt. II p. 38) identifies this species (as well as D. papillipes 

 Nic.) with Nothrus pulverulentus C. L. Koch. It is doubtful, if the species of Nicolet 

 and Michael are identical, if not Nicolet's has not been refound. 



England, France, ? Germany. 



Div. II. Sp. 17-21. Ung. trid.*) 



17. D. bicostatus C, L. Koch 1835 D. b., C. L. Koch, C. M. A., fasc. 2 1. 12 

 1886 D.b., Berlese, A. M. S., fasc. 33 nr. 5 | 1877 Belba bicostata, Canestrini & Fan- 

 zago in : Atti 1st. Veneto, ser. 5 v. 4 p. 103. 



*) The genus Damaeus is divided by Berlese, only this group being retained 

 in the genus, but this is not permissible, because Koch's type of the genus is auritus 

 a mond. species. A.D.Michael. 



