242 A. e. OrOEMANS, NOTES OX ACAEI. 



and before this a thornlike hair ; tibia with the usual two 

 bristles ; tarsus with the usual numerous hairs, among which 

 a long seta forward and the usual bifid (not trifid) hair 

 are noticeable. 



Legs shorter than body, slender, with distinct basifemurs, 

 distinct basitarsi, small paratarsi, small suckers, small claws, 

 and small hairs. 



Habitat: dried figs. (Also dried dates and damsons, 

 according to Hering). 



Patria. Germany. The reason that hitherto Melichares 

 agilis is not found again since 1835, is propably this, that 

 these mites are living on plants of Soutliern Europe, North 

 Africa and Asia Minor and are only imported occasionally 

 with dried figs or dates. 



Found by Hering, 1835, and by Hans Voigts, 1901. 



Types of the above descriptions in my collection. 



9. Genus Melichares Hering. 



Melichares Hering in Act. Acad. Caes. Leop. Car. Nat. Cur., 

 V. 18, P. 2, 1838, p. 620. 



Melichares Oudms. in Entom. Bericht, n". 1(3, p. 14o, 1,111, 1904. 



Based on deutonynipha and female only : Laelaptinae 

 of which the d e u t o n y m p h a e are protected Ijy two dorsal 

 shields, and have a triangular epistonia, a peritrema which 

 immediately becomes dorsal, short, laciniate, not fringed inner 

 malae, slender converging horns of hypostome ; and of which 

 the female s are protected by a weak narrow dorsal shield 

 and a long genital shield, reaching the middle of the venter, 

 and have a hypostome like that of the deutonympha. 



10. Bryobia graminum (Schrank). 



The good idea of comparing my incomplete drawings of 

 Bruobia sp. with the two figures of Irombidium lapidimi in 



