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pointed in most specimens, and there are four pairs of small markings, rather 

 like gland openings, near the margin of the abdomen. Hair armature short 

 and sparse. 



Cephalothorax broad and bluntly pointed, lamellae long and rather broad, 

 widest at the distal extremity, their hairs are strong and finely spinous, and 

 spring from the outer angle of the lamellae ; translamella absent, or 

 extremely faintly marked ; interlamellar hairs widely separated. The 

 prostigmatic organs are rather short, with distinctly clubbed, and finely 

 setose, extremities (fig. 335). Front tibia armed with a prominence and 

 tactile hair. 



Locality. — Mnlranny, common on the sandhills and under stones on the 

 sea-shore near high-water mark in September. 



Notaspis similis Michael. 



Clare Island, The Bill Eocks, Achill, Delphi and the Westport district, 

 common in moss. 



Distribution. — Finland ; Holland ; Britain. 



Notaspis lucorum (0. L. Koch). 



(Jommon in moss. Clare Island, Achill, and Westport district. 

 Distribution. — Spitzbergen to Italy. 



Notaspis oblonga (C. L. Koch). 



Achill Island, in moss and amongst fallen pine-needles, September; 

 Westport (Knappagh Wood, in moss). 



Distribution. — A widespread species, Finland to Italy. 



Notaspis lacustris Michael. 



Mulranuy, in sphagnum pools, September ; Delphi ; Croaghpatrick at 

 about bOO feet, in sphagnum, October. 



Distribution. — Finland; Germany; Holland; Italy; Britain. 



Dameosoma lanceolata (Michael). 



Clare Island; Achill; Westport (Croaghpatrick, 600 feet, in sphagnum, 

 October). 



Distribution. — Holland (Oudenians) ; England (in moss, Michael; ; Scot- 

 land (Forth area, Evans). I have also found this species in Dollymount 

 saltmarsh, Co. Dublin, in October. 



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