A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 

 OPILIONES 



The Harvestmen are spider-like creatures with 236. Oligolophus mono, Fabricius. 



eight long legs, the tarsi long and very flexible. Eyes Coniston 

 simple, two in number, situated on each side of an 



eye eminence. Body not divided into two distinct Known also as Phalangium morio and 



regions by a narrow pedicle, as in the spiders, urnigerum, Hermann. 

 Abdomen segmentate ; breathing apparatus consisting 



of tracheal tubes with external stigmata at the base of 237. Oligolophus agrestis, Meade. 



the fourth pair of legs. Duddon Vale. 



233- Phalangium opiRo, Linnaeus. KnQwn also ^ ^ QRgolopbus 



Blackpool, ephippiger, Simon. 



Known also as Phalangium cornutum, Linnaeus. 



234. Phalangium parietinum, De Geer. 238. Nemastoma lugubre, O. F. Mailer. 



Duddon Vale. Duddon Vak> 



Found in plenty on the walls of outhouses, . . . . . . 



squatting in a small hollow. Its appearance is an ,. Kn wn als , as . ?**!&* lugubre and Nemastma 



infallible sign of the approach of autumn. hmoculatum, Fabncms. 



235 ' ?& Sco. p.-c.). *"- <r ma ch " iomelas ' Hermann " 



Easily known by the long spikes on the eye- 



eminence. Known also as Phalangium cbrysomelas. 



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