372 

 Damceus sufflexus Michael. 



1885. Damseus sufflexus, Michael, Jour. Roy. Micr. Soc, Ser. 2, Vol. V., p. 394, 



PI. VII., Fig." 9. 

 1888. Damseus svfflexus, Michael, Brit. Orib., Vol. II., p. 415, PL XXXIV., 



Fig. 9, 10. 

 1895. Belba sufflexa, Berlese, Acari, Myr., Scorp., Fasc. LXXIV., Nr. 4. 

 1898. Damn us sufflexus, Michael, Das Tier., Lief. 3, p. 58. 



Light brown, legs almost yellow; integument of cephalo- 

 thorax rather rough, abdomen smooth. 



Cephalothorax subrectangular, pointed at apex, with a 

 rather large boss under each pseud ostigma. Lamellar hairs 

 absent; rostral hairs stout, slightly curved. Pseudostigmata 

 long, nearly upright, cylindrical; pseudostigmatic organ filiform, 

 very long, about equal in length to the cephalothorax. 



Abdomen globular; progaster rounded; notogaster with a 

 row of about live short, stout, slightly curved hairs on each 

 side, which project slightly beyond the side of the abdomen. 

 Ventral plate small; anal and genital covers of almost exactly 

 the same size and form, with a very narrow margin between 

 them. 



Legs rather long, of medium thickness, and typical of the 

 genus. Femur of leg I twice as long as the genual, and with 

 two large bristles on the outer distal margin; genual two thirds 

 the length of the tibia; tibia two thirds the length of the tarsus; 

 tarsus globose proximally and tapering distally, with a very 

 stout bristle on the outer proximal margin. 



Length. 0.70 mm.; breadth, 0.42 mm. 



Under logs. Collected by the writer at Urbana, III. 



Damceus nitens C. L. Koch. (Fig. 1, p. 839.) 



1834. Oppia nitens, C. L. Koch, Crust. Myr. Arach., Heft 3, Tab. 10. 



1888. Damseus nitens, Michael, Brit. Orib., Vol. IL, p. 400, PL XXXIV., 



Fig. 1-8. 

 1895. Belba minuta, Banks, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XXII. , p. 12. 

 1898. Damseus nitens, Michael, Das Tier., Lief. 3, p. 57. 



Light yellowish brown; integument polished. 

 Rostrum broad, about a third the length of the cephalo- 

 thorax; translamella absent; pseudostigmata very small; pseu- 



