55^ IV AR tragArdh 



Ventral side. Epimera finely punctured, not coalescing in the median 

 line, as is usually the case in the nymphae of Nothrns. Epimera I with 3 small 

 hairs, ep. II with i hair, ep. 3 and 4 with 3 hairs. 



The legs are areolated in the basal half. 



Loc: Juan Fernandez, Masatierra, Rabanal, c. 300 m. s. m. among dry 

 leaves in dense forest, Aug. 1917; in the bottom of the Rabanal Quebrada, 

 c. 100 m. s. m., among dry leaves, Aug. 1917, no. 775; Puerto Ingles, c. 400 

 m. s. m., among dry leaves in dense forest, Aug. 1917, nos. 789, 79c; below 

 Co. Damajuana near Corrales de Molina, c. 300 m. s. m. among dry leaves 

 in dense forest, Aug. 1917, no. 739; on the Centinela ridge, c. 630 m. s. m., 

 under ferns, Aug. 1917, no. 788, 



Neoliodes Berl. 



This genus has during the last years been studied both by Jacot (1924, 

 1929) and Sellnick (1930). According to Sellnick there are in Europe only 

 two species of this genus, N. theleproctus (Hermann), described from France 

 and subsequently found in Italy by Berlese, and N. farinosus (C. L. Koch), 

 described on a specimen with only the last nymphal skin left on the hystero- 

 soma and later described by Michael from England (1888) under the name 

 of N. theleproctus and by Berlese from Italy under the name of N. caudatus} 

 It is my firm opinion that Sellnick is right in considering these species as 

 synonymes and in refuting to place Notaspis theleproctus Hermann in the vi- 

 cinity of DamcBUs C. L. KoCK as suggested by Jacot. 



In 1916 Berlese divided off N. doderleini as a distinct subgenus, which 

 left the other species included in Neoliodes sensu stricto. I quite agree with 

 Sellnick that the establishment of a new genus Udetaliodes for these species 

 by Jacot was uncalled for, and I find it singularly unfortunate that J. has 

 chosen N. concentricus Say (not Banks as Jacot writes!) as type of this genus. 

 Because it is evident that Neoliodes is quite a big genus, comprising numerous 

 species both in America, Africa, Asia and Australia many of which differ only 

 in rather minute details. This being the case A^. concentricus is altogether too 

 imperfectly known to be used as the type of a genus. 



The description given by Say is as follows: ^Body spheroidal, black, 

 opake, rounded before and carinated behind, invested with a brown epidermis; 

 disk with about four elevated concentric circles, connected by numerous inter- 

 stitial elevated lines; posterior carina crenate in compliance with the concentric 

 lines; head triangular, rugose; oval aperture oval, closed by a valvular mentum; 

 eyes two, minute, brownish, elevated on an elongated, slender filiform peduncle; 

 orbits elevated, rather large, placed near the base of the head above; y>^/ rather 

 short, deep black, minutely granulated, terminated by three incurved nails; 

 venter plain, granulated, valvs of the cloaca somewhat lineated.» 



It is certainly evident that the species is a Neoliodes, but that is all there 



* Neoliodes peltife?- C. L. Koch, by Michael (1897 p. 65) referred to Neoliodes I proved 

 to be a Nothrus, a view later adopted by other authors. 



