588 IVAR TRÂGÂRDH 



Besides thèse, tlie examination has revealed some very 

 remarkable features, and enabled meto describe the gnatho- 

 soma, thetritosternumand other things of which Berlese 

 omits to tell us anything. 



Département des Alpes-Mariiimes {France). — Grotte de 

 Baume Granet ou Goule de Mougins, commune de Roquefort, 

 canton de Bas-sur-le-Loup, 17 th September 1905; N^ 91, 

 1 nympha, 



Province iV Alger {Algérie). — Ifri Semedane, Aït-Abd-el-Ali, 

 commune Djurjura, 30 th September 1900 ;N^ 173, 3nymphae. 



Distribution : Europe. 



Nympha homeomorpha. 



Length : 760 y.. Width : 450 y.. 



Dorsal side (fig. 109) almost completely covered by the 

 dorsal shield, which leaves only a narrow strip anteriorly, 

 and at the sides in the anterior two thirds unprotected ; this 

 strip bears a row of small, regularly placed hairs ; similar hairs 

 are scattered ail over the dorsal shield ; poster ior end of 

 dorsal shield rounded,set olï by a pair of small insinuations, 

 and with dentate margin. 



Gnathosoma. 



Epi s t orna long, narrow and lanceolate, finely fringed. 



Mandibles (fig. 111) with narrow chela, the lower jaw of 

 which is shorter than the upper one ; dorsal edge of chela 

 perfectly straight ; ventral one straight in the basai half , dis- 

 tally bending upwards in an even curve. Length of upper 

 jaw (including appendage) to lower one as 4 : 3 ; no 

 flagellum; lower jaw dorsally and exteriorly with 3 narrow, 

 subequal and equidistant teeth ; interiorly and medially with 

 thin convex edge at the back of the terminal tooth ; upper jaw 

 with narrow, deep incision opposite the lower terminal tooth ; 

 at the back of thèse two teeth, uniform with those of the lower 

 jaw ; in front of the incision the large, bifurcated terminal 



