564 BRITISH ORlBATIDiB. 



Legs ratlier short, of the type usual to the genus, 

 the first pair tlie largest. Claws monodactyle, large. 

 Legs amply provided with long setiform hairs. 



Abdomen almost elliptical, rounded posteriorly and 

 anteriorly. There are four longitudinal rows of large, 

 almost rod-like, blunt-ended, very slightly imbricated 

 hairs on the notogaster, and two rows of similar hairs 

 on each side. Grenital and anal plates large, of about 

 equal size, nearly square, but the latter rounded pos- 

 teriorly. The dorsal plate is suflflexed on to the ventral 

 surface posteriorly, and there has a very small median 

 point directed forward. 



I am not acquainted with the immature stages of 

 this creature. 



Distribution. — I have only seven or eight specimens, 

 three or four of which I obtained amongst the dead 

 leaves in a mole's nest in Warwickshire, and the others 

 amongst dead leaves in a wood near Stone, Stafford- 

 shire. I suspect, however, that it is really not a great 

 rarity, but easily overlooked by being mistaken for a 

 small, lately emerged specimen of one of the common 

 species (dasypus). 



HOPLOPHORA ARDUA,* EocJl. PI. LI, figS. 8 15. 



Soplopliora ardua, Koch. Heft 32, fig. 15. 



Average length about '80 mm. 



Average depth from dorsal to ventral surface about 

 •40 mm. 



Average length of legs (first and fourth pairs) about 

 "36 mm. 



This, as mentioned in treating of the genus, would 

 belong to Berlese's genus Tritia if that genus were 

 admitted. The species is easily distinguished from all 



* Arduus, steep, difficult. 



