60 NOTES ON PAUROPODA 



Allopauropus danicus (Hansen). 



Since recording this species from Sunderland I have taken 

 an example on the edge of a wood on the river Wear between 

 Durham and Leamside. 



Family BRACHYPAUROPODID/E Cook. 



Genus BRACHYPAUROPUS Latzel. 



Only two species, hamiger Latzel and superbus Hansen, 

 are known, the latter described from a single male. Our 

 knowledge of the family, as Hansen says, is scanty, and 

 knowing exactly where my species was taken, I hope to 

 obtain further material and so perhaps add a little to our 

 knowledge of an intensely interesting creature. In the mean- 

 time I give the following brief description. 



Brachypauropus lubbocki sp. nov. 



Length about o - 5 mm. This species is sharply separated 

 from hamiger and stiperbtis — the only characterised forms — 

 by the form of the antennae and of the anal plate and styli. 



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Fig. I. Brachypauropus lubbocki. Fig. 2. Brachypauropus lubbocki. 



Part of right antenna X about Processes of anal plate and styli (s) 



300 diameters. from above X about 500 diameters. 



The branches of the antenna are short, scarcely longer 

 than broad, whilst the flagella are short and stout, about 

 three times as long as the length of the globulus and stalk. 



I was unable to make out the whole of the anal plate, 

 only the processes, which from above are leaf-like, whilst each 

 of the very characteristic styli resembles a short inverted T. 



Habitat. — Two specimens from a quarry near Penshaw, 

 Aug., 191 1, together with three examples of a minute apterous 

 and primitive insect belonging to the recently diagnosed 

 Order Protura — representatives of which have not been 

 previously recorded as British. My friend Mr. H. S. Wallace 

 was with me on the occasion of these interesting captures. 



