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Length rather more than one-twentieth of an inch. 

 Found in Georgia, under stones, under hark of 

 decaying, trees, £fc. in rather moist situations. 



genus IXODES. Latr. 



Palpi short, simple, valvular, forming with the 

 haustellura a short rostrum; mandibles none ; feet 

 with a pedunculated pulvillus and two nails ; eyes 

 obsolete or wanting. 



Species — 1. I. *annulatus. Body oval, pale red- 

 dish-brown, tinged with sanguineous, particularly 

 behind, and with several longitudinal and oblique, 

 black, abbreviated lines, scattered punctures, and 

 three abbreviated, longitudinal impressed lines be- 

 hind ; rostrum, with the palpi dilated, rather sud- 

 denly contracted at base, and annulated more promi- 

 nently beneath with about two elevated lines, which 

 on the sides produce an angulated appearance, much 

 shorter than the haustellum, rounded at tip ; haustel- 

 lum, the two superior organs emarginate at tip, ex- 

 terior division dentate beneath, inferior organ with 

 numerous resupinate teeth resembling fenestrate 

 punctures ; posterior to the origin of the palpi above 

 is an orbicular, obscure assemblage of punctures re- 

 sembling; eves ; black dorsal lines of the male some- 

 what regular, consisting usually of a dorsal line di- 

 varicating before, and behind, the middle, furnishing 

 a branch each side, which at the tip of the abdomen 



