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long as and a little wider than the tarsus, is pressed against its 

 uuderside, so that it is sotnewhat gutter-shaped, is smooth inside 

 and densely covered with extremely minute hairs (villous) at its 

 outside or underside. Fig. 25 a, b, c, d, e represent different 

 views of the tarsus I with its scale. 



Feinale (Fig. 26 and 27). Lengtk from 440—600 p. — Colour 

 shape and texture like those of the (ƒ. 



Dorsal side (Fig. 26) like that of the (f. The copulation tube 

 is somewhat dorsal, never ventral, sometimes not, sometimes a 

 little, sometimes fully projecting beyond the posterior edge. 



Ventral side (Fig. 27) like that of the cf, except the following 

 characteristics. The genital aperture is a long longitudinal split, 

 extendiug from a level a little behind the proximal ends of 

 epimera II to a level of the distal ends of coxal plate III (or middle 

 of coxal plate IV). It is limited in front by a little semilunar 

 chitinous bar. The covers bear in their hinder half a rod like 

 marking, the significatiou is unknown to me (attachment of 

 muscles?). Under each cover a pair of minute suckers. Each cover 

 flanked by two little smooth hairs. Inward of the coxal plate IV 

 one ditto. A little before the anal aperture a transverse row of 

 4 ditto. To the sides of the anal split a short hairy hair. Quite 

 posteriorly 3 pairs of long hairy hairs, of which the second is 

 the longest. 



Capitulum and legs like those of the (f. 



Habitat : all kinds of fats, greases, sweat-meats, dusts, hay, straw, 

 tobacco, old collections of animals, of birds, of insects, of plants, etc. 



Patria: Norway (Andersen), Netherlands (Snellen v. V., Oude- 

 mans), Germany (Schrank, Koch, Kramer), France (Lyonet, Laboul- 

 bène, Robin, etc), Austria (Kirchner), Spain (Fumouze), Italy 

 (Canestrini, Fanzago, Berlese), consequently certainly Belgium and 

 Switserland too, most probably also Sweden, and possibly Great 

 Britain, Russia, the Balkan Peninsula, Portugal, North-Africa and 

 West-Asia. 



