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these mites. In the di-awings now shown,* Pig. 1 represents a 

 mite from extract of Taraxacum or dandelion ; Fig. 2, one from 

 extract of colocynth ; and Fig. 3, one from extract of nux- vomica. 

 It will be noticed that Figs. 1 and 2 have not only eight 

 legs, but a pair of claws, very much like those of the lobster. 

 The mite from extract of colocynth (Fig. 2) has also two very 

 curious eyes; for each eye, that is, the actual eyeball, has branching 

 or growing out from it three little feathers, shall we say spikes, of 



Fiff. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



considerable length — twice as long as the eye is broad. This to my 

 mind seems to be particularly curious, I having always regarded 

 the eye as something very tender, always to be kept moist and so 

 on, and having shutters to it. Then the first pair of legs are 

 branched in every direction, almost like twigs of a tree. The mite 



* For the loan of the blocks from which these fii^-urcs are printed we are in- 

 debted to the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. — Ed. 



