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NOTES ON PSEUDOSCORPIONS, BRITISH AND 



FOREIGN. 



By Edv. Ellingsen, Kragerb (Norway). 



{Read October \%th, 1907.) 



Mr. H. Wallis Kew, of Bromley, Kent, had the kindness, last 

 year, to send me a splendid collection of mostly British, partly 

 determined Pseudoscorpions for further examination ; and this 

 examination, together with valuable remarks and particulars 

 furnished by Mr. Wallis Kew, have added several very interesting 

 facts to the knowledge of these animals. One of the most 

 interesting facts is that Obisium (Roncus) Cambridgii, L. Koch, 

 really belongs to a genus other than that to which all authors 

 up to the present have referred it. It should enter the genus 

 Ideobisium (Ideoroncus), Balzan, the species having indeed a galea, 

 the true name being thus — Ideobisium (Ideoroncus) Cambridgii. 

 The Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, who possesses the type of this 

 species, has been so kind as to examine this type and other 

 British specimens, and he communicates in a letter to Mr. Wallis 

 Kew that he can see the galea. 



Mr. Wallis Kew has further been so kind as to examine Leach's 

 types of Pseudoscorpions in the British Museum, and among the 

 results of this examination may be noted that Chelifer Hermanni, 

 Leach, is nothing but a somewhat young $ specimen of Chelifer 

 cancroides, Linne, Leach's species thus dropping into the numerous 

 synonyms of the latter species, as already supposed by several 

 authors. 



I here desire to offer Mr. Wallis Kew my thanks for the 

 opportunity he has given me of studying this fine collection 

 of Pseudoscorpions. 



Chelifer Chyzeri, Tombsvary. 



England : Burnham Beeches (Buckinghamshire), October, 1905. 

 Mr. Wallis Kew took two examples under the bark of a beech- 

 stump in company with C. cimicoides. I have seen one cT. 



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