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LINCOLNSHIRE MITES. 



EPICRIUS. 



C. F. GEORGE, M.R.C.S. 



This g-enus of mites belong-s to Koch's Family of ' Thiermilben ' 

 = ' Gamasides.' He describes eig"ht j^enera of this family in his 

 Ubersicht, published in 1837 : Epicriiis was not one of them, 



Fijj. i,—Eplcrlus mollis. Kramer. 



the genus had not then been formed. Tiie type species was 

 first described and figured by Kramer in 1876 (under the name 

 of G(im<isus iiio//is) in the ' Archi\- fiir Naturgeschichte,' and 

 the genus Kpicriiis was founded afterwards by Canestrini and 

 I'^mzago. Ilaller also figures a species which he calls /•'picrius 

 cduvstroiii. None of these papi'rs have yet been seen by nu-, 



Naturalist 



