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these »fine" hairs (British Oribatidae, vol. 2, tab. 54, Fig. 13, 

 14, 15, 16) so coarse, that tkey resemble heterodactyl claws rather 

 than »fine hairs". 



So I will subjoin a new key to the species of Scutovertex in 

 which the claws of Sc. büineatus are not referred to. 



29. Key to the species of Scutovertex Michael. 



Lam. narrow, or only thickened bars, 



or ridges, or scarcely visible ... 2. 

 Lam. broad, horizontal; C. lam. long, 

 large, with rounded ends . . . .8. 



( With psstg. and psstg. org 3. 



1 Without psstg. and psstg. org. . . .7. 



!Lam. blade on edge S. ovalis (Berl.). 

 Lam. and Trlam. thickened bars, or 

 ridges, or scarcely visible .... 4. 

 !No indentations in post. margin of Abd. 5. 

 Two indentations in post. margin of Abd.; 

 aspine on each 6. 



!Dors. of Abd. slightly curved . . . S. corrugatus Michael. 

 Dors. of Abd. with arched centre and 

 broad, flat, peripheral band . . . S. maculatus Michael. 



6 Only one species S. harioti Michael. 



7 Only one species S. büineatus Michael. 



(Ung. trid *S. sculptus Michael. 



(Ung. monod 9. 



( Abd. without wing-like margin . . . S. caelatas Berl. 



( Abd. with wing-like margin on shoulder 5. velatus (Michael). 



30. Scutovertex spoofi, uynipha, = Hermauuia couvexa 

 (C. L. Kocli), uynipha. 



As stated above, my nyinph, described and drawn in the 

 Tijdschr. v. Entom. vol. 43, p. 113 and 114, tab. 5, Fig. 11—16, 

 is nothing but a nymph of Hermannia convexa (C. L. Koch) 



