356 BRITISH ORIBATIDiE. 



NoTASPis BiPiLis,* llerm. PL XXVII. 



Notaspis bijnlis, Hermann. P. 95. 



— — Nicolet. P. 448. 



— — Berlese. Acarofauna Sicula. 

 Oribata — Gervais. Vol. iii, p. 259. 

 Oppia cornuta, Koch. Heft 38, fig. 8. 



— hipilis. Can. e. Fan., p. 20. 

 Oribates badius, P Koch. Heft 30, fig. 23. 

 Oppia badia, ? — Uebersicht, p. 105. 

 Murcia acuminaia, — Heft 31, fig. 24 (Nymph). 



Averaoje lens^th about '65 mm. 



Average breadth about '42 mm. 



Average length of first pair of legs about '38 mm. 



Average length of second pair of legs about '31 mm. 



Average length of third pair of legs about '42 mm. 



Average length of fourth pair of legs about '48 mm. 



This is a very handsome and remarkably active 

 species ; it is, moreover, perfectly distinct from any 

 other British species, and cannot be mistaken. 



Colour reddish-brown, not very dark. 



Texture highly polished, reflecting exterior objects 

 like a mirror. 



Cephalothorax in some respects exceptional. Ros- 

 trum long and attenuated and ending in a very 

 sharp point ; there is a smaller point from the gena, 

 on each side, and further back three or four small 

 serrations along the lower edge of the gena. Towards 

 the centre the cephalothorax is arched. The dorso- 

 vertex is polished like the rest of the upper surface. 

 Lamellae nearly on edge ; each has a blunt point running 

 inward at the anterior edge of the dorso-vertex ; beyond 

 this the cusps of the lamellae are continued nearly as 

 far as the point of the rostrum, and stand quite free 

 in air ; they are narrow, fine, curve very slightly, and 

 end in a sharp point above with a very small square 

 shoulder below it, from which springs a strongly 



* Bis, twice ; pilus, hair. 



