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considerably less broad than long ; the cubital joint is very tumid 

 on its inner side ; the bulb of the pincers is distinctly longer, to 

 the base of the first claw, than its Avidth behind ; and the claws 

 are slightly curved and equal to the bulb in length." 



They appear to be comuioner in some years than in others. 

 Godfrey (1909) says: "The ordinary habitat of CJi. nodosus, as 

 Mr Wallis Kew has pointed out to me, appears to be among refuse, 

 that is, accumulations of decaying vegetation, manure heaps, 

 frames and hot-beds in gardens. He refers t(j its occurrence in a 



Fig. 69. Clientea )iodosus, Schr. x 30. 



manure-heap in the open air at Lille, and draws my attention to 

 its abundance in a melon-frame near Hastings in 1898, where it 

 was found by Mr W. R. Butterfield." In view of these facts it is 

 not difficult to understand its frequent occurrence on the legs of 

 flies, which may have been on the rubbish heaps either for the 

 purpose of laying oggs, or, what is more likely, because they have 

 recently emerged from pupae in those places and in crawling about, 

 during the process of drying their wings, etc., their legs were 

 seized by the C. nodosus. 



