226 BRITISH TYEOGLYPHID^. 



leg oJ 



the other legs, and having the femur 



spurred . . . ALEUROBIUS. 



.First leg of the male not conspicuously 



thicker than the other legs, and its femur 



not spurred . . . . . K. 



,-Males strongly dimorphic ; theheteromor- 



phic males having the third leg much 



thicker than the others, and its tarsus 



converted into a great slightly -curved 



claw, but without the ordinary ambulacra RHIZOGLYPHUS. 

 "No dimorphism of the males " , . TYKOGLYPHUS. 



GENUS GLYCYPHAGUS * (Hering). 



Glycyphagus, 1838. Hering, " Die Kratzruilben," in * N. Acta Ac. 



Leop.,' vol. xviii, pt. 2, p. 619. 

 1882. Scudder, ' Nomencl. Zool. Universal Index,' 



p. 132. 

 1894. Monier, 'Notes,' p. 17. 



1897. Berlese, ' A. M. S. Crypt.,' p. 106. 



1898. Berlese, ' A. M. S.,' fasc. Ixxxix, No. 1. 



1898. Oudemans' ' List,' p. 251. 



1899. Kramer, ' Thierreich,' Lief. 7, p. 144. 

 Glyciphagus, 1844. Gervais, in Walckenaer, ' Insectes apteres,' 



vol. iii, p. 263. Printed in error Glycyphocus in 

 vol. iv, p. 557. 



1867. Fumouze and Robin, ' Mem. Acar.,' p. 568. 

 1879. Troupeau, " Des Acariens de la Farine," in 



' Bull. Soc. d'^tudes Sci, d' Angers,' 1876-8, fasc. 

 ii, p. 110. 



1880. Megnin, ' Les Parasites,' p. 138. 

 1888. Canestrini, ' I Tiro,' p. 6 ; ' Pros.,' p. 355. 

 Glycophagus, 1846. Agassiz, 'Nomencl. Zool. Arachnidse,' p. 6. 



This must probably be a misprint. 

 Glyciphalus, 1868. Donnadieu, in 'Ann. Sc. Nat. Zool.,' vol. x, 



p. 69. 



Glyziphagus, 1880. Glaus, ' Grund Zool.,' vol. i, p. 651. 

 Acarus, part. Of all writers prior to 1796, and probably of all 



prior to 1835. 



1842. Koch, ' Uebersi,' p. 118. 



1877. Canestrini and Fanzago, " Intorno agli Acari 

 Italiani," in ' Atti 1st. Veneto,' ser. v, vol. iv, p. 196. 



Special synonymy relative to the Acari included here 

 in the genus Glycyphagus, but which constituted the 



fjnus I)ERMACARUS,t Haller, and the genus HOMOPUS, 

 och. 



, sweet ; 0ay<u, to eat. 

 f Aspjua, the skin ; dicapi, a mite. 



