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 4. Eremaeus conjunctus Oudms. 



[(With Plate VIII, fig. 12, 13). 



1902, Nov. 11, Eremaeus conjunctus Oudms. in Tijdschr. v. Ent., 

 v. 45, Verslagen, p. 54. 



Adult. I have only found one mutilated specimen near Warnsveld, 

 a village in our province of Gelderland. Yet the creature is charac- 

 teristic enough to recognize it at once from all the other known 

 Eremaeus. Therefore I give here a description of it. 



Length 550 yt.. Colour pale brick-coloured. Shape that of Eremaeus 

 lanceolatus Michael, of which it may be the nearest relative. Tex- 

 ture polished. 



Dorsal side (Fig. 12). On the cephalothorax the lamellae are 

 only mere thickened bars, gently bowed like an S, not ending 

 in a hair; on the contrary the lamellar liairs of which only the 

 place of implantation is very well visible, stand inside of the 

 lamellae, nearly in the middle of the length of the cephalothorax. 

 The interlamellar hairs on the usual places. The pseudostigmata 

 perfectly circular directed upward. The pseudostigmatic organs 

 club-shaped with thin, short peduncles, gradually thickened toward 

 their end; smootb. 



Abdomen oval, with top backward; anteriorly a little convex 

 in the median line. I have drawn the ten spots which are certainly 

 places of implantation of hairs. Possibly there are more, but I 

 did not see them. 



Ventral side (Fig. 13). The demarcation between coxal plates I and 

 II curved forward near the edge of the cephalothorax, on the ventral 

 side of the tectopedia II. Demarcation between cephalothorax and 

 abdomen and the ring around the genital opening dark. Demarcation 

 between coxal plate IV and the ventral plate only visible as a line. 

 Genital opening circular; anus nearly square with rounded angles. 



Maxillar Ups large, with four blunt teeth each. 



Legs. Most probably with monodactyle claws. 



Habitat : in mosses. 



F atria: Netherlands. 



