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WATER-MITES OF FOLKESTONE WARREN. 



Bv Charles D. Soar. 



A T the east end of the fashionable watering- no doubt was formed in the first instance by an 



■^ place on the Kentish coast, so well-known as enormous landslip. It is of great wildness and 



Folkestone, is a wild, rugged piece of land called beauty, the surface is undulating, no part is flat ; 



the Warren, well-known to most visitors to that it is all hillocks and hollows, clothed with a 



Watf.r-Mitks. 



Fig. I, ventral surface of Limnochaics Iiolosciicca ; fig. 2, ventral surface of Ncsaca pulclira : fig. 3, genital area of Nesaea 

 convcxii ; fig. 4, Ilyiliachiui cnieiitci, showing hard chitinous piece behind and between eyes; fig. 5, epiniera and legs of one 

 side of same; ftg. 6, Hyilnnlioma helvetica, shape of plate; fig. 7, dorsal surface of male Hygrobales hcmisphneiiciis; tig. 8, 

 dorsal surface of Limiieiia Julgida ; figs. 9 and to, genital areas of male and female of same. 



delightful resort. It extends from the East Cliff, 

 Folkestone, alongside the sea towards Dover for 

 about two miles. The northern side is walled in 

 by a high chalky cliff, which reaches as much as 

 450 feet above sea-level. This rugged undercliff, 



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beautiful green herbage, and in places thickly 

 covered with brambles and thickets. There are 

 a few small trees, but very few. To the naturalist 

 the Warren has particular attractions. Geologists, 

 entomologists and botanists can spend time here 



