14 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 3. N:0 28. 



The legs II — IV are of the same length. The tarsi II and 

 III have got no tooth shaped projections. The ambiilacra are 

 not so highly developed as in the adult form and there are a 

 pair of straight, weak claws. (Fig. 13, Pl I.) They resemble 

 very much the feet of Parantenmdus scolopendrarufn Berl.^ 



Tritonympha feminma generans. 



The shape and form of the dorsal side, the epistome, the 

 maxillsB, maxillary palps, mandibles and legs are exactly like 

 those of the tritonympha <^. 



The ventral side. (Fig. 3, Pl. I.) The jugular shield is 

 shaped as in the J". The sternum is very short and weakly 

 chitinized; it bears 3 pairs of sharp bristles near the anterior 

 edge. 



The epigynium coalesces with the ventral shield along its 

 base and with the paragynial shielelds, fexcept at the anterior 

 edge, where two small incisions indicate the limit between the 

 shields. The anterior end of the epigynium is square, situated 

 far forward, between coxse II. It has two longitudinal, an- 

 teriorly slightly converging thickenings. The paragynial 

 shields are small, anterior ly rounded and provided with two 

 pairs of bristles. 



The ventral shield is destinctly demarcated from the large 

 metapodial shields, which latter are of the same shape as in 

 the adult forms, and is posteriorly rounded, with wavy, edge 

 slightly concave in the middle. It bears bristles of the same 

 shape as the tritonympha J". 



The anus is situated near the posterior margin and sur- 

 rounded by a träns verse, indistinctly demarcated shield. 



Paramegistus confrater Tgdh 1906. 



Pa) mnegistus confrater nov. gen. nov. spec. Trägårdh Neue Acariden 

 aus Natal und Zululand in Zoologischer Anzeiger Bd. XXX. Xo. 26 p 873. 



Male. Average length 0,92 mm. greatest width 0,9 mm. 

 Female: (with 12 — 14 eggs) average length 1,24 mm.; great- 

 est width 1,16 mm. 



Male. 



Colour, yellowish brown. Texture smooth, pohshed. The 

 fcrrm of the body is very broad, pyriform; the greatest width 



1 Acari, Myriopoda etc. Fasc. XXXI No. 9. Tab. 66. 



