NOTASPIS JUNCTA. 365 



I found two specimens at the New Forest rather 

 shorter and much narrower than those above described ; 

 their pseudo-stigmatic organs have rather longer 

 peduncles and larger heads ; they probably are a 

 separate species^ at present I treat them as a variety. 



NoTASPis JUNCTA,* Michael. Plate XXYIII, figs. 



9—12. 



Notaspis junda, Michael. Journ. Roy. Microsc. Soc, ser. ii, vol. v, 



p. 385. 



Average length about "22 mm. 

 Average breadth about 'IS mm. 

 Average length of legs (first pair) about '12 mm. 

 Average length of legs (second and third pairs) about 

 •11 mm. 

 Average length of legs (fourth pair) about '15 mm. 



A minute species, chiefly remarkable for the lamellaa 

 meeting in the middle of the cephalothorax, and for 

 the long, closely-approximated cusps of the lamellae. 



Colour rather light yellow-brown. 



Texture polished, without any markings or punctures 

 that are visible with, say, 200 diameters amplification. 



Shape short-pyriform. 



Cephalothorax conical with rounded sides. Rostrum 

 pointed ; rostral hairs nearly straight. Palpi slightly 

 porrected. Lamelias t]ii7i blades almost on edge, which, 

 although widely separated at their posterior ends, 

 ap])roach so dose together anteriorly that they actually 

 touch in the median line at about the centre of the 

 cephalothorax; they are slightly undulated. The 

 cusps are very long, and where they start from the 

 lamellae rise with a rounded shoulder ; they twist over 

 so as to become almost horizontal, and diminish, with 

 curved sides, to a blunt point. The lamellar hairs are 

 terminal, long, straight, and directed forward. Pseudo- 

 stigmata almost hidden by the abdomen and lamellae, 



* Junctus, joined. 



