300 SELECTED NOTES FROM 



the before-named Journal of the Zoological Society^ together with 

 Lcelaps Icevis and Lcelaps cuneifer. 



Laelaps laevis (Fig. 8). — The former I obtained from the nest of 

 a ground ant, of name unknown to me. I met with it in one nest 

 only in the woods at the back of a village called Igis, near Inns- 

 bruck, Tyrol. It occurred in some numbers, together with great 

 quantities of a small Oribatid of the genus Notuspis, but of a 

 species unknown to me. 



Laelaps cuneifer (Fig. 9) came from the nests of Camponotus 

 herculatieus, and was fairly plentiful in the large galleries con- 

 structed by this ant in the decaying trunks of fir-trees. With these 

 occurred also numerous other gamasids and oribatids, and in one 

 or two instances the curious chocolate-coloured larvae of a species 

 of breeze fly were comfortably ensconced in the same passages — a 

 somewhat singular locality for a fly to make its first appearance. 

 The colour and texture of the larva was exactly that of the gal- 

 leries in which it was found. 



Fig. 1 1 is a LcBlaps I have been unable, so far, to identify, and 

 is probably undescribed. It came from the nest of an ant found 

 under stones in the olive groves at San Remo, of which I also 

 neglected to secure specimens for identification. The acari walked 

 leisurely about, holding their long front legs after the manner of 

 the chelae of chelifers. 



Fig. 12 is a single specimen of a gamasid taken from the nest 

 of a ground ant in the Aahrenthal, near to the village of Patsch. 

 I have called it a Laelaps, but am very doubtful whether it does 

 not belong to another genus, and I also believe it will turn out to 

 be quite new. 



Zetorchestesmicronychus (Fig. 6). — To complete the quotum 

 of slides, I have put in one containing several specimens of a very 

 interesting Oribatid, not as yet found in this country, but which 

 seems generally distributed on the continent — viz., Zetorchestes 

 mycronychiis, found amongst mosses. It is the only one in this 

 family that is known, so far, to be gifted with the ability to jump 

 like a flea, and is consequently difficult to capture, for as soon as 

 it is approached with a camel-hair pencil it gives a spring and has 

 disappeared. It will be noticed how deeply the coxae of the last 



