84 Petty : North Lancashire Botafiical Notes in igo2. 



It will be seen by the figures that the g-eneral shape of the 

 creature is very much like several other species of Arrliennriis, 

 and Sig". Thor remarks that it belongs to the division ' Mega- 

 lurus ' of Carl Thon, of Prague. It is easily distinguished from 

 all other known species by the four rather long and very 

 remarkable projections at the end of the tail. I suppose the 

 appearance of these appendages suggested the name ' 7neni- 

 branator.' Fig. 2 represents the end of the tail more highly 

 magnified than the Figs, i and 3. 



The general colour of the mite is like yellowish parchment ; 

 any other colour of the integument is soon discharged when the 

 mite is placed in preservative solution. 



Fig. 4 represents the under and Fig. 5 the upper surface of 

 the female. The perforated plates on the under side (one on 

 each side of the genital valves) are rather peculiar in shape, and 

 very nearly resemble those figured by* Dr. Piersig as A. conicus. 

 The upper surface has the circular depressed line common to all 

 female members of this family. 



I am indebted to Mr. Soar for the figures, which he made 

 from my specimens, also for measurements of the mites, viz. : 

 Length of male, 1*32 mm.; breadth of male, o"8o mm. These 

 diff"er slightly from Sig. Thor's, who gives length, 1-15 mm. ; 

 breadth, o"8o mm. Length of female, i "36 mm.; width of 

 female, i"i6 mm.; length of legs of male: ist, i '04 mm.; 

 second, 0*96 mm.; third, i "04 mm.; fourth, 1 "20 mm. Sig. 

 Thor gives the length of the appendage, 0*38 mm. 



NORTH LANCASHIRE BOTANICAL NOTES IN 1902. 



S. LISTER PETTY, 



Ulverston. 



The following notes on North Lancashire plants have been 



made this year with one exception — Cotyledon — at Newland, 



where I have known it for several years ; one spike was nearly 



nine inches long. It is in the possession of the Rev. W. Wright 



Mason, of Bootle, Liverpool. Lake Bank is at the foot of 



Coniston Lake, where the gondola pier stands. 



Clematis Vitalba L. At the highroad end of Birk Row bridge, 



over the Crake (i.e., between Lowick Bridge and Nib- 



thwaite). There is none of it about the farm hedges or 



walls, and nothing to indicate how introduced. New 



locality. 



Naturalist, 



