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are distally bi- or tridenti culate. The inner malae consist of 

 a transparent piece each, ending in a long inner slip and a 

 few outer fringe. Palps dorsally (Fig. 8) without any noti- 

 ceable particularity. Ventrally (Fig. 13) the trochanter bare; 

 the femur with a bristle outward and a transparent knife- 

 shaped hair inward, of which the back-edge is serrate ; the 

 genu with a bristle outward and a transparent knife-shaped 

 hair inward of which the back-edge has a single minute 

 teeth in the middle. Tibia and tarsus normal. 



Legs (Fig. 8) normal, comparatively slender resp. about 

 705, 480 and 480 a* long. Paratarsus III (Fig. 14): the 

 proximal hairs scarcely reach the distal ones; one of these 

 latter ones is dorsal and outward (the figure represents the 

 left paratarsus), and the other ventral and inward ; subunguinal 

 caruncle pyriform ; superunguinal sticking pieces heart-shaped; 

 claws normal. 



Habitat: decaying leaves. 



Patria: Netherlands (Hilversum). 



F o u n d b}' Dr. De Meijere. 



Type in collection Oudemaus. 



7. Parasitus affinis Oudms. 



(With Plate 9, fig. 15—33; Plate 10, fig. 34—41). 



Parasitus affinis Oudms. in Entom. Bericht, n^ 14, p. 120, 

 1 -Januari 1904. 



Deutonympha. Length 760 — 880 |U. Colour dark 

 straw-coloured. S h a p e long-oval ; shouldered behind legs II 

 and above legs I, therefore anteriorly more or less truncate. 

 Texture scaly on the shields, finely wrinkled in the unpro- 

 tected parts. Dorsal side (fig. 15) protected by two shields. 

 Anterior s li i e 1 d nearly ])entagoiuil in shape with one 

 rounded angle foi-wurd, and with parallel sides ; posteriorly 

 perfect!} straiglit. Posterior s h i e i d anteriorly nearly 



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