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BRITISH FRESHWATER MITES. 



By Charles D. Soar, F.R.M.S. 



GENUS CURVIPES KOENIKE. 



POME years ago a series of articles was 

 ^ published in the pages of Science-Gossip 

 (First Series, vol. xviii., pp. 193-249) on the 

 different species of the genus Arrenurus then 



ton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, supplementary papers, 

 have been published by the same author, until, as 

 far as is known at present, all the British Arrenuri 

 have been recorded and figured. The genus 





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Curvipes nodatus M tiller. 



Fig. 1, female, dorsal surface ; fig. 2, ventral surface ; fig. 3, tarsi and claws of first pair of 

 legs ; fig. 4, tarsi and claws of fourth pair of legs ; fig. 5, palpus inside surface of right-hand 

 side ; fig. 6, genital area of female. 



known to be British. As new forms have been Arrenurus, however, contains a very large number 

 found from time to time by Dr. George, of Kir- of species, far more than any other genus of this 

 January, 1899.— No. 56, Vol. V. I 



