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32. Dam^eus clavipes. Herm. 



• Aearus genicidatus. Linn. vol. ii. 1025. 



Orihata geniculata. Fabricius, ' Ento. Sys.' vol. iv. 431. 

 „ „ Latreille, ' Gen. Crust, et Ins.' 149. 



„ „ Sclirank, vol. iii. 208. 



Notaspis clavipes. Herm. 88. 

 Bamxus geniculatus. Koch, fasc. 3, pi. 13. 

 Aearus corticalis. De Geer, vol. vii. 131. 

 Bamxus auritus. Nic, 463. 

 „ „ Murray, 216. 



Found at Epping Forest ; not common, although Nicolet says 

 it is in France. 



I have not followed Nicolet's name, although adopted by Murray, 

 as I fail to see why he took the name which Koch had given to the 

 species Nicolet calls riparius, or why Hermann's far older name of 

 clavipes should be discarded ; no doubt the earlier writers did not 

 distinguish between this species and geniculatus, and included both 

 under one description, but Hermann's figure is certainly this species 

 and Nicolet says that it is. 



33. Dam^eus verticillipes. Nic. 

 Nic. 462. 

 JDamseus nocUpes. Koch, fasc. 30, pi. 6. 



„ onustus. „ ,, 38, „ 7, with coating of dirt 



and cast skins. 

 Found at Epping Forest and Loch Maree. 

 Most of the specimens of this creature which I have found have 

 been thickly covered with fine white dust, like pulverulentus (Koch) ; 

 this is not mentioned by Nicolet. 



Dam^eds nitens. Koch. 



34. Oppia nitens. Koch, fasc. 3, pi. 10. 



Average length about "48 mm. 

 „ breadth ., "32 „ 



I have a specimen or two found in cellars at Mortlake, Surrey, 

 and at Tamworth, which strongly resemble Koch's Opina jiiteiis, 

 but it is difiicult to say for certain, as his description is so slight ; 

 but rather than make a new species I adopt his. 



Colour brown ; cephalothorax about half the length of the 

 abdomen, conical about two-thirds of its length (from the front) 

 then widening sharply to a slight shoulder, which is indented for 

 the insertion of the first pair of legs, but forms an irregular pro- 

 jection extending from these to the insertion of the second pair ; 

 stigmatic tubes more widely separated and less raised than usual in 



