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undue importance assigned to it. It may also be 

 remarked that a large portion of the Phytopti do not 

 live in galls ; that water-mites are not all soft-bodied ; 

 that the definition and classification of the Oribatoidea 

 is wholly based upon old, erroneous, exploded anatomy, 

 and therefore fails ; and that the maxillary lip of the 

 Ixodoidea is mistaken for the mandibles. 



