346 BRITISn ORIBATJD^. 



the notogaster are not like T. latus ; possibly it may 

 be some separate species more allied to T. dentatus. 

 There appears to be some accidental miscarriage or 

 confusion in this plate and description, as his figure 

 3 does not agree with his figures 1 and 2, and he 

 inserts, among his references for synonymy, my de- 

 scriptions both of T. latus * and of T. cepheiformis^^ 

 which he could hardly have done intentionally, sup- 

 posing him to have read the latter paper. 



Tegeooeanus HEEioiuSjj: sp. nov. PI. XXV, figs. 8 — 



13 ; PI. XXVI, fig. 10. 



Average length about "59 mm. 

 Average breadth about "42 mm. 

 Average length of legs (first pair) about '30 mm. 

 Average length of legs (second and third pairs) 

 about '27 mm. 



Average length of legs (fourth pair) about "34 mm. 



This handsome species often has dirt adhering to it. 



Colour very dull, dark, yellow-brown. 



Texture extremely rough. 



Shape pyriform. 



Cephalothorax long and rather narrow, conical. 

 Dorso-vertex reticulated. Rostrum small, rather 

 pointed, but not sharply so. E-ostral hairs largish, 

 curved, set far back. Lamellae long, nearly straight, 

 reticulated blades on edge; not so large as those of 

 T. latus, T. dentatus, &c. ; near together anteriorly ; 

 no cusps. Lamellar hairs thick, directed forward. 

 Translamella inconspicuous. Pseudo- stigmata dorsal, 



* " A Contribution to the Knowledge of British Oribatidse," * Journ. 

 Roy. Micr. Soc.,' ser. i, vol. ii, p. 247. 



t See heading of this description. 



J Hericius, an old Latin form of the word "Erinaceus" vel Herinaceus, 

 a hedgehog. The French word, " Herrise," bristling, probably has this 

 root ; and it is possible that the local Somerset expression, " Herrish," 

 stubble, may have come from the same source. 



