558 PRITTSH ORIBATIDtE. 



Nymjph. 



This creature will be mucli more readily understood 

 from the drawing (fig. 4) than from any description. 

 It is a fat, soft, yellowish-white, inert creature, which 

 can scarcely stand upright on a plane surface, it falls 

 on its side almost immediately. From the dorsal 

 aspect little can be seen except the large rounded 

 abdomen and the upper bulbous part of the mandibles ; 

 these are not covered by any aspis, as in the adult ; 

 otherwise the two are really much alike if the want of 

 hard chitinization be taken into account. The point of 

 the dorsal plate, which curls under behind the anal 

 plate in the adult, is represented by a larger mamilli- 

 form termination to the abdomen of the nymph, which 

 does not curl under. 



Distribution. — Common and generally distributed. 

 The species has been recorded in France and Germany. 

 It is a wood-boring species, but may be found in moss 

 on the wood. 



HoPLOPHORA ANOMALA,* BerUse. PI. LI, figs. 5, 6. 



Hoplophora anomala, Berlese. Acari, &c. Ital., fasc. vi, pi. v. 

 — — G. Canestrini. Prosp. dell' Acarofauna 



Ital., p. 47. 



Length varies, at least, from about "75 mm. to 

 about 1*60 mm., probably even more. 



Depth, from dorsal or ventral surface, of a specimen 

 1'50 mm. long, about '70 mm. 



Length of first and second pairs of legs in same 

 sized specimen about '42 mm. 



Length of third and fourth pairs of legs in same 

 sized specimen about '49 mm. 



This singular species was originally found by 

 Professors Canestrini and Berlese in the Patavian and 



* 'AvujxaXoQ, unequal, anomalous. 



