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Habitat. Dust in house. 

 Patria. Netherland (Utrecht). 

 Found by me. 

 Type. In collection Oudemans. 



3. Emeus major Oud nis. 



(With Plate VIII, fig. 7—11). 



Emeus major Oudms., in Entoui. Bericht, p. 100; 2 Nov. 1903. 



Deutonymplia (Fig. 7). Lengt h 536 yt.. (of Emeus halleri 350 (a). 

 Colour brown, much darker than in Emeus halleri. Shape perfectly 

 oval, without any shoulders, which is the best character to distin- 

 guish it from E. halleri (G. et R. Can.); top forward. Texture 

 scaly on the shields; unprotected parts finely wrinkled. — Dorsal 

 side (Fig. 7) provided with a row of quite marginal small bristles, 

 a submarginal row of bristles more remote from one another, and 

 about 7 pair of bristles arranged in the usual manner. Two distinct 

 vertical hairs. — Ventral side (Fig. 8) perfectly resembling that 

 of Em. halleri (G. et R. Can.). Peritrematal shields long. 



Tectum (Fig. 9) with about 7 sharp mucros, of which the 

 medial one is bifurcate with blunt teeth. (The tectum is rounded 

 in E. halleri (G. et R. Can.). 



Epistoma (Fig 10) much shorter than in E. halleri so that it 

 is not visible with dorsal view. 



Mandibles like those of E. halleri. 



Maxillae (Fig. 11); horns as usual; inner malae bifurcate; outer 

 part membranaceous, with irregular edges ; inner part laciniate 

 with extremely finely serrate outer edge ; palps as usual, short, thick. 



Legs comparatively shorter and thicker than in Emeus halleri. 



Habitat most probably in dung, or among decaying leaves. 

 Vehicle: Musea domestica L. 



Patria: Netherlands (Leiden). 



Found by Jhr. Dr. Ed. J. G. Everts. 



Type in collection Oudemans. 



