NOTASPIS LIONOPHOEA. 379 



NoTASPis LiCNOPHOKA,* Michael. PL XXXI, figs. 6 — 8. 



Notaspis licnophorus, Michael. Further notes on British Orihaticlce. 



Journ, Roy. Microsc. See, series 2, 

 vol. ii, p. 2. 



Average lengtli about -19 mm. 



Average breadth about -11 mm. 



Average lengtli of legs (first and fourth pairs) about 

 •10 mm. 



Average length of legs (second and third pairs) 

 about "08 mm. 



This extremely minute species is easily distinguished 

 by the disproportionately large size and unusual shape 

 of the pseudo-stigmatic organs, from which the name 

 was derived. 



Colour light yellow-brown. 



Texture smooth but dull, occasionally j^olished. 



Gephalothorax considerably narrower than the 

 greatest width of the abdomen, but at the actual junc- 

 ture the cephalothorax is the wider. Rostrum with a 

 small median point, then widening at an obtuse angle 

 up to the translamella, and posterior to this the 

 cephalothorax becomes suddenly wider and more 

 parallel-sided. Eostral hairs rather short and curved. 

 Lamellae strongly-marked, thickened bars or ridges, 

 starting from the pseudo-stigmata, and curving out- 

 ward, then strongly inward, and finally becoming more 

 parallel, but always with a more or less curved and 

 slightly irregular line. Just in front of the abdomen 

 the two lamellae are joined by a transverse bar, which 

 is not straight but has a strong median point directed 

 backward, and a smaller lateral point, far less distinct, 

 near each lamella pointing forward, giving a zigzag, 

 or, if the points be not sharp, an undulating line. 

 Translamella very strong, and extending entirely across 

 the cephalothorax. These four ridges enclose a nearly 

 square smooth space on the dorso-vertex. Pseudo- 



* A'lKvov a fan ; ^epw, I bear. 



