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species, fouud »iü insectoruru exuviis loco humido adservatis, verain 

 inducens cariem." His figure is a bad one. He nevertheless has 

 observed the long tactile hairs on the tibiae, the hairs longer 

 than the body. 



1829 Lyonet's nrite is the same species, to be sure. It is fouud 

 iu collections of iusects ; its hairy hairs are drawn a little too 

 short, but its loug body, constricted iu the middle imuiediately 

 betrais it; therefore: 



1829. De Haan's deteruiiuation is correct. 



1841. Koch's Acarus spinipes, so called because the 4 f ore-leg s 

 bear three spurs or spines each, has all the characteristics already 

 ruentioued above, so that there is no doubt at all, that it is the 

 same species of which we are treating. The directiou of the two 

 posterior — side — hairs is accidental ; the animal is able to 

 move its hairs. 



1867. Ou p. 42, line 1, we read: »le travail que nous publierons 

 prochainement, M. Ie professeur Ch. Robin et moi, dans Ie Jour- 

 nal d' anatomie et de physiologie de l'homme et des animaux." Con- 

 sequently the work of Fumouze on the Cantharis offi-cinalis appeared 

 previously to the cited volume of the Journal. And though he 

 asserts »Les descriptions que je vais donner sont extraites de ce 

 travail," we observe on comparing the two works, that the 

 descriptions are verbally the same. We meet here for the first 

 time a description and a drawing of Glycyphagus cadaverum (Schrank) 

 (uuder the name of spinipes) (p. 50, t. 4), which beat all what 

 is geven hitherto. I cite only : Tarses des quatre paires de pattes 

 plus courts que dans Vespe.ee précédente (i. e. Gl. domesticus (de 

 Geer)), hérisse's, comme les longs poils, de courtes pointes, qui 

 disparaissent lorsque l' animal est place dans un liquide." Poils: 

 >les postérieurs toujours plus longs que Ie corps." 



1877. Canestrini and Fanzago's description is tolerably well 

 done. They mention the so called spurs or spines on the fore- 

 legs, the long hairs, but not the villosity of the tarsi. No drawing. 



1880. Megnin's mentions the villous tarsi; moreover his 

 description and drawing both are bad. 



