220 A. e. OUDEMANS, NOTES ON ACAET. 



short and curve. Epimera I free, close together though. Epi- 

 mera 111 short, as long as trochanter 111; epimera IV longer; 

 both with external epiraerites, exactly as in Nph. I (see fig. 24). 

 Shields outside of epimera I and II a narrow coxal plate. 

 Coxal plates III and IV on both sides of epimera III and IV, 

 coalesced to form one large plate. Hairs: to the sides of 

 the proximal (posterior) ends of epimera I a pair of minute 

 hairs ; between the proximal (anterior) ends of epimera IV a 

 pair of ditto ; between the trochauteres IV a pair of ditto ; 

 and near the oblique edges of the bilobed abdomen a pair of 

 ditto. Of the lateral hairs planted on the outer part of coxal 

 plates III, the longer one is much longer than epimera I or 

 li ; the shorter one as long as trochanter III. — Between 

 the epimera IV there are 4 points in a square betraying the 

 place where the future genital opening will appear. 



Mandibles normal. 



Maxillae normal. 



Legs normal, shorter than the width of the abdomen. 



Habitat in the spools of the great quills op Totamis 

 totarms (L.). 



Patria. Probably the geographic distribution of the paras 

 is the same as that if its host. 



F o u n d by Dr. E. L. Trouessart in France. 



Type in collection Trouessart. 



8. Avenzoaria limicolae (Oudms.). 



(With Plate n, fig. 27 — 29). 



1004. Pterolichus limicolae nov. sp. Oudemans in Entomol. 

 Bericht. No. 19, p. 172. 



Protonympha (Fig. 27). Length 288 ^. C o 1 o u r 

 in the weak parts pale ; in the hard parts brownish. Shape 

 elongate, two and a half times longer than wide ; widest 

 between legs II and III ; posteriorly rounded, with a shallow 



