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the second; the fourth is nearly as long as the rest 

 together, and bears one very long and one short apical 

 spine. Legs (fig. 18) very long, stout, and sparsely 

 spinose ; tibio-tarsal joint obsolete ; but there is some- 

 times a very faint subcentral constriction on the 

 posterior legs ; claws with a pair of short, slender, 

 basal spines. Eyes, placed close to the antennae (fig. 

 14), comparatively small. Anal orifice (fig. 15) with 

 six rather short, stout, spiny hairs ; ring broadly 

 punctate. 



Habitat. Mr. Douglas, under the name Orthezia 

 normani (1. c.), gives Pitlochry (Norman) and Bexley 

 Wood, Kent, and states with regard to the latter 

 locality that he "had the pleasure of finding this 

 species on a bank, among the stems of grass and other 

 plants, and dead leaves and debris.' 1 He also saw ex- 

 amples from Mr. C. "W. Dale, but does not give the 

 locality. I find the species is decidedly partial to moss 

 and grass among heather and other plants ; and it also 

 occurs freely among dead leaves and debris, and on one 

 occasion I found it in the crowns of Helianthemum and 

 grass which were growing in a large ant-hill. I have 

 found it abundantly at Chislehurst, Kent; on the ex- 

 tremely dry Oolitic escarpments in the Cotswolds, 

 Gloucestershire ; at Briston, Norfolk, in very damp 

 situations; among dead fir leaves and damp moss in 

 Delamere Forest, Cheshire, and also in very dry situa- 

 tions in the same county; in the moorlands of Flint- 

 shire, Denbighshire, and Carnarvonshire, North Wales ; 

 and also in the principal islands in the Western 

 Hebrides, including St. Kilda. 



Distribution. Probably common in many parts of 

 Europe, but outside the British Isles I believe it has 

 only been Authentically recorded from Germany and 

 Bohemia (Sulc) ; and Mr. Luff has met with a single 

 example at Guernsey, which he found in an ants' nest, 

 together with specimens of Ripersia tomlinii. 



Mr. Green (1. c.) gives the following interesting 

 account of its occurrence in Australia: "Mr. C. 



