HERMANNIA AREECTA. 447 



Nymph. 



Colour of the whole creature, except the legs and 

 the tip of the rostrum, is very light rosy purple, so 

 light as to be almost white ; it is sometimes slightly 

 shaded at the edges with blue-grey. The legs and tip 

 of the rostrum are rosy brown. The hairs are white. 



Cephalothorax broadly conical ; rostrum truncated ; 

 rostral hairs short and thick ; pseudo-stigmata nearer 

 than usual to the median line ; pseudo-stigrnatic organs 

 long, slightly clavate, and standing forward and out- 

 ward. Interlamellar hairs long, straight, and seti- 

 form ; there is also a short similar hair outside each 

 pseudo-stigma ; a pair of similar hairs, not so large as 

 the interlamellar hairs, is placed on the dorso-vertex, 

 representing the lamellar hairs as in the adult. 



Legs of nearly uniformly diminishing thickness 

 throughout ; the two front pairs are the shorter and 

 are of nearly equal lengths ; the coxfB are sometimes 

 lighter in colour than the other joints. 



Abdomen shield-shaped, about half as long again as 

 its greatest width. The cuticle is raised along the 

 progaster, so as to form a roll or fold. The whole 

 notogaster is thickly studded with small roughnesses 

 which look like papillae when seen projecting at the 

 lateral edges of the abdomen, but appear to the eye 

 more like small areolations when seen from above. 

 There are four rows of strong curved hairs on the 

 notogaster, two longer straight hairs near the hind 

 margin, two smaller pairs nearer the median line, and 

 a single pair of straight stout hairs still nearer to the 

 point of the abdomen. There is a strong curved hair 

 by the antero-lateral angle on each side, and another 

 similar just below the insertion of the third pair of legs. 

 The abdomen has sometimes a slight projecting point 

 posteriorly. 



Distribution. — The larva and nymph are found in 

 burrows in dead wood ; the adult in similar places, 

 and in moss growing on the wood. 



