114 (dr. a. c. OTropiMATsrai. notes on acart. 



Habitat: most probably humus or decaying leaves, for the deuto- 

 nymph- was attached to an Oniscus asellns. 

 Patria: Netherlands (Leiden). 

 Found by Prof. Dr. Ritzema Bos of Amsterdam. 



U. Uropoda bosi Oudms. 



(With Plate 12, fig. 20—22). 



Uropoda host Oudms., nov. sp. , in Entomologische Berichten, 

 p. 88; 17, VIII, 1903. 



VeutoHi/mpha. — Length 496 ,<'. — Colour light brown. — 

 Shape like that of Ur. javeusls Oudms. — Texture perfectly polished. 



Dorsal side (Fig. 20). Dorsal and marginal shields wholly fused. 

 Many minute hairs arranged in almost concentrical rows, following 

 the oval contour of the body. 



Ventral side (Fig. 2i). Sterni-genital shield long, narrow, with 

 8 pair of minute hairs. Venlri-anal shield nearly semicircular, with 

 3 pair of minute hairs, and two bristles flanking the anal aperture. 

 Pits of the legs 4 bowed inward. Metapodial shields fused with 

 ventral, at least there is no demarcation of them. Margin of body 

 provided with minute hairs. Stigma at a level just before leg 3. 

 Veritrema very complicate: a small portion bihind the stigma is 

 convex inward and directed hindward, the remaining is directed 

 first forward, then outward, then forward, then inward, then bowed 

 forward and outward, then bowed forward and deeply inward, then 

 almost straight forward to reach the margin far before the implant- 

 ation of leg 1. 



Legs. Coxa 1 with small lateral blade. Trochanter 1 with strong 

 horizontal blade distally. Femur 1,2,3,4 with ventral longitudinal 

 blade. Tarsus 1 with claw on a long peduncle and with a long 

 tactile hair. Tarsus 2,3,4, with 3 short, thick spines outward. 



Maxillae. (Fig. 22). Hyposlome very elongate, with the usual 6 

 hairs, which are hairy; horns long, minute; inner malae bifid, 

 long, hairy; lingua long, hairy; so that between the horns 5 long 



