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A. E. Verrlll — The Bermuda Islands. 



or yellowish red body when mature, with a dark spot on each side, 

 hut sometimes it is greenish. Length of body, .4 to .5 ram . Lives 

 under a loose fine web on the under side of leaves of various plants. 

 Others were apparently T. tilarius (fig. 228), a common " red spider" 

 of conservatories in Europe and America. It doubtless occurs here 

 in abundance, at certain times. Both are very injurious. 



A small, undetermined, yellowish white mite, probably of the 

 genus Uropoda, was found strongly attached by a filament, in a 

 cluster, on the posterior dorsal surface of the body of a Pangceus, a 

 black cydnid bug (see fig. 1*75, p. 801). It has a short-elliptical 

 body, convex above and flat below, with a chitinous integument; 

 legs short. It is immature and probably undescribecl, (t. N. Banks.) 



Doubtless many moreAcarina are common, but the mites have been 

 very little studied here.* 



Figure 227. — Two-spotted Leaf-mite or Bed-spider (Tetranychus bimaculatus 

 Banks) ; o, dorsal view, x 36 : b, tarsus and claw ; c, palpus ; after Banks. 

 Figure 228. — "Bed Spider" (T. tilarius L.); a, dorsal view of male, x 40 ; b, 

 six-legged young of same ; c, tarsus and claw ; after Murray. 



c. — Myriajiods. (Centipedes, etc.) 



Only about seven or eight species of myriapods are known from 

 the Bermudas, all of which, except perhaps the Spirobolus, have 

 probably been introduced by man. The largest and most important 

 is the Centipede. 



Centipede. (Seolope)idra subspinipes Leach.) 



Blate C ; Figures 1 , 2. 

 This is common, at least in many parts of the Main Island, as at 

 Bailey Bay and Walsingham. It is found under stones, old logs, 



* The Mange-mite of cattle (fig. 224a) ; that of the horse (Psoroptes equi) ; and 

 the Chicken-mite or Bird-mite (Dermanyssus avium Dug., fig. 2246) are known 

 to occur. . 



