184 (db. a. c. oudemans) notes on aoaei. 



Remark, Nicolet has figured in the Archives du Museum d'His- 

 toire Naturelle à Paris, Vol. VII, tab. 2, fig. 8, a nympha, 

 which with the most probability is nothing but Koch's Oppia glau- 

 cina^ consequently the nympha of Bella genimlata Linné (iion 

 Koch, non Nicolet). 



Nicolet says, ibid. p. 396, that this nympha belongs to i>a»««g«« 

 geniculatus, but the animal described and figured by him under 

 this name , is at all events quite another species than that of Linné 

 and also quite another than that of Koch. 



He seems to be very incorrect as to the interpretation of the 

 different larvae and nymphae. Hypochthonius rufulus is a typical species 

 and even a typical genus amongst all the Oribatei; but Nicolet 

 asserts it is the nympha of Leiosoma ovata Koch ! 



Belha torva Koch. 



Synonyms: 1836, Damaeus torvus Koch, Deu. Cr. Myr. Ar. 

 Heft 3, n°. 14 (nympha). 



1855, Damaeus verticillipes Nicolet, Arch. Mus. Par. Vol. VII, 

 p. 396, 462, tab. 8, fig. 2, 2a (imago). 



Koch has described and figured under the name of Damaeus 

 torvus in his Deutschlands Crustaceen , Myriapoden und Arachniden 

 Heft 3, tab. 14, the nympha of a species of Belba, of which 

 Nicolet described and figured the imago under the name of Damaeus 

 verticillipes. 



His figure however is badly drawn, and therefore I give here 

 another more correctly represented (fig. 20). On comparing Koch's 

 figure with mine, one will be soon convinced of the fact that 

 the two figures represent the same animal. Again Koch's specimen 

 had its bristles broken off, and Koch in restoring them, drew 

 them too short. 



The imago is figured by Nicolet not quite correct enough. The 

 legs viz. are represented far too slender; they are indeed much 

 thicker. 



Michael says in describing the nympha of Belba torva (called 



