DAMiEUS AURITUS. 435 



Taf. xi, fig. 8 (1879). I never saw the larva carry- 

 ing so mnch dirt as in his figure. 



Egg- 



With a very hard chitinous shell, much punctured. 

 There is a very strongly marked deutovium stage 

 (Fig. 4). 



Distribution. — This is one of the common and gene- 

 rally distributed species ; it has usually been considered 

 the commonest. I think this must arise from its being 

 of large size and easily seen, as there are other species 

 more abundant, although this is very common ; it is 

 found in moss, dead leaves, dead wood, under stones, 

 under the bark of trees, &c., and has been recorded 

 in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, 

 Italy, &c., and from Port Clarence (Kramer and Neu- 

 mann, ' Report on the Acari of the Vega Expedition '). 



Dam^us AURITUS,* Koch. PI. XL. 



DatncEus auritus, Koch. Heft 2, fig. 11. 



— — Haller. Millbenfauna Wiirttembergs, p. 307. 



Oribata aurita, Gervais. Hist. Nat. des Insectes Aptex'es, t. iii, 



p. 257. 

 Damceus riparius, Nic. P. 461. 



Average length about "85 mm. 



Average breadth about "58 mm. 



Average length of legs (first pair) about '95 mm. 



Average length of legs (second pair) about '77 mm. 



Average length of legs (third pair) about "97 mm. 



Average length of legs (fourth pair) about 1"25 mm. 



This species is not the Damwus auritus of Nicolet. 

 That writer had a strange habit of shifting the names 

 of species, which is very confusing ; he gave the old 

 name of auritus to clavipes^ and invented a new name, 

 riparius^ for this species. 



* Auritus, eared. 



