(DR. A. C. OTTDEMANS). NOTES ON ACARI. 1*29 



short; epimera IV twice longer than III. The coxal plate III is 

 limiter! proximally by a chitinoiis bar. — Genital aperture between 

 coxal plates III, triangular, top forward, with rounded corners and 

 sides. Penis almost dunnpbell shaped, straight; suckers minute. Four 

 minute smooth hairs before the aperture; two a litlle behind it. — 

 Anal apeiture long; anterior end flanked by a pair of smooth hairs, 

 shorter than ihe anal split. 



Mandibles. I am unable to say anything about them. My pre- 

 paration is already bad enough to open it again and to destroy it. 



Maxillae. (Fig. 53). Median lip a little pointed in front ; outer 

 malae distally rounded; palps of the usual type, with scarcely 

 discernable trochanter, femur and genu, which *are fused with the 

 enormously developed coxal plate. 



Fseudostlffmatic organ (Fig. 5'2) with main trunk, distally dis- 

 tinctly bifid, and laterally with small bifid branches. 



Legs like those of Gl. cadaverum (Schrank). 



Habitat. Meal. 



Patria. Germany (Vegesack). 



Foimd by Mr. S. A. Poppe. 



Type in collection Oudemans. 



14. Glycyphagus fustifer Oudms. 

 (With Plate 8, fig. 54—56). 



1903, XI, \.Glyci/phagus fustifer Oudms,, in Entom. Bericht, 

 p. 103. — 



Male. Ijengtli 360 m. — Colour pale straw-coloured. — Shape 

 oval; in my specimen the greatest width about in the middle. — 

 Texture finely granular like in Gl. cadaverum (Schrank). — 



Dorsal side [Fig. 54). Second transverse row of 4 hairs slightly curved 

 forward. — Third transverse row well curved forward. — Fourth 

 transverse row considerably curved forward, so that its inner pair 

 originates even before middle of the animal's body. — As usual, 

 the hairs of these 4 rows are smaller than, or at the most equaling, 

 the width of the body. The inner pair of the 4th pair is rather 



