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The 14 species marked f were already known as members 

 of om' fauna. With regard to the other names : (1) " Ohisium 

 sylvaticum,^^ a single specimen badly mounted = Ohisium {Ron- 

 cus) luhricum (L. Koch); (2) '' Chelifer Hermannii^^ ^ Chelifer 

 cancroides (Linn.) ; (3) " Chelifer meridianus,^^ a single speci- 

 men from Bloxworth, = Chelifer (Chernes) cimicoides (Fabr.) ? ; 

 (4) Chernes insuetus, from Mr. Haydon's oil-mills, foreign to our 

 fauna ; (5) Chernes duhius, found by the author at Glanville's 

 Wootton and by the Rev. F. 0. P. Cambridge at Sherborne, = 

 Chelifer (Chernes) dubius (Camb.) ; (6) " Chernes fhaleratus,'" 

 found by Mr. W. F. Blandford under bark of trees in the New 

 Forest in May 1890, = Chelifer (Chernes) scorpioides Herm. 



H. J. Hansen published at Copenhagen, in 1893-4, a valuable 

 memoir : " Organs and Characters in different Orders of 

 Arachnids" (Kjobenhavn, Ent. Medd., iv. pp. 137-251) con- 

 taining for Pseudoscorpiones a classification which improves and 

 simplifies that of Balzan. Many errors which had become current 

 — and are unfortunately still current — are exposed ; and the 

 then recent papers of H. M. Bernard are criticized. That author's 

 often-quoted " Notes on the Chernetidae " (London, J. Linn. Soc. 

 Zool., xxiv. 1894, pp. 410-30) is full of misconceptions; audit 

 is hoped that the practice of repeating them in our books will 

 be discontinued. All Bernard's Arachnida-work (done hastily 

 in connection with the controversy about Limulus) requires critical 

 consideration. Barrois' magnificent " Memoire sur le developpe- 

 ment des Chelifer " {^Garypus'], with a long series of illustrations, was 

 published at Geneva (Rev. Suisse Zool., iii. pp. 461-98) in 1896. 



28. Carpenter, G. H. — [" Chernes phaleratus (Sim.) " in Ire- 

 land]. Irish Naturalist, v. p. 215. Dublin, 1896. 



Taken at Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow, by Mr. J. N. Halbert. 

 = Chelifer {Chernes) dubius (Camb.) ? * 



Ellingsen's " Norske Pseudoscorpioner " (Christiania Vid.- 

 Selsk. Forh. 1896, No. 5, pp. 1-21) appeared in 1897 [Supple- 

 ment, Id., 1903, No. 5, pp. 1-19] ; and Tullgren's " Bidrag till 

 kannedomen om Sveriges Pseudoscorpioner " (Ent. Tidskr. 

 Stockholm, xx, pp. 161-82) in 1899. 



Chernes insuetus and Chernes dubius, and the specimens recorded as 

 " Chelifer meridianus " and " Chernes phaleratus." That recorded as 

 *' Ohisium sylvaticum " had passed out of the author's possession ; but 

 facilities for examining it were afforded me by a mutual friend in 

 1909. Cf. Kew (38), pp. 41, 54. 



* Cf. Kew, H. W. — Notes on the Irish False- Scorpions in the 

 National Museiun of Ireland. Irish Nat,, xviii. (1909), pp. 249-50. 



