APPENDIX. 



CLASSIFICATION. 



Two works, eacli including a classification of the 

 Oribatidce, Lave been issued since tlie publication of 

 vol. i of this book ; they are both Italian. The first is 

 ' Prospetto dell ' Acarofauna Italiana,' by Prof. Gio- 

 vanni Canestrini, of the University of Padua, whose 

 former classification, made in conjunction with Prof. 

 Fanzago, will be found at page 55 of this book. The 

 ' Prospetto ' was published at Padua in 1885. The 

 second is called ' Acarorum Systematis Specimen,' and 

 is by Prof. Antonio Berlese, of the same University ; it 

 was pubhshed in the ' Bull. d. Soc. Entom. Ital.,' 1885, 

 p. 125. 



Prof. Canestrini's classification is as follows : 



1. Cephalothorax immobile on the abdomen. 2. 



„ mobile ,, 1-1. 



2. ,, furnished with a tectum 3. 

 ,, without ,, 8. 



3. Abdomen furnished with wings 4. 



,, without ,, 5. 



4. Tectum with spatulate hairs . Pelops, K. 



,, ,, hairs of other forms . Orlhates, Latr. 



5. Tectum detached from cephalothorax 6. 



,, partly fused with cephalatliorax 7. 



6. Tarsi heterodactyle . . . Leiosoma, Mc. 



,, homodacytle . . . Gepheus, K. 



