SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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BRITISH FRESHWATER MITES. 



By C. F. George, M.R.C.S. 



I HAVE again the pleasure of increasing my list 

 of Arrenuri by the addition of four more 

 species, three of which I have taken in my own 

 immediate neighbourhood : the other one was found 

 by Mr. Soar at Sunningdale. 



Fig. 1. — Arrtiums buccinator (male). This very 

 beautiful little mite is well figured, though rather 



be De Geer's caudatus (Heft. 2, fig. 24), which, 

 however, is different apparently from my mite, not 

 having the peculiar last joint but two of the hind 

 legs, and being destitute of the very remarkable 

 hairs on the tail, to be found in tailed mites gener- 

 ally. These, however, may have been accidentally 

 rubbed off in the specimen from which Koch made 



Fig. ?. 



Water Mitbs. 

 - ..1 urfa c, ''■ - . female 



Fig. 3, ventral surface. A. buccinator, female 

 1V11 I p 1 and 11 ■ 1 ral surface. 



irwl. by K'Kh, in hii " Deutschlands 

 lit;. 7. ma. H 



■ ■ rrect, a 1 think 

 ■hen the mile fi«urcl by 



under 

 the name of" Amnun 



and mu»t be v.me of "ly the 



figure I i 

 1 mite, which he 



his drawing. Doubtless, when Piersig's great work 

 on " W:it'-r Mites," now in progress, reaches 

 Irrmurus, all these difficulties will disappear; I 

 fear, however, that it will be sunn: time before 

 thai portion i-. published. The female (fig, •;. 

 dorsal mrface, and fig. 3, ventral surface) is in 



shape very much like man) othei female Arre i 



11. Identity Is, however, vsy wll made out, 

 . 11 ha been taken by myself, coupled 



