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de Geer’s figure also have the first leg with caruncle and claws. It 
seems, therefore, probable either that Megnin’s must be some very- 
rare French species, in which case it is not likely to have been de 
Geer’s Uropocla ; or else that Megnin had overlooked the small 
caruncle and claws on the first leg, or that his specimens had lost 
them ; in which case his specimens and de Geer’s might well be one 
species. It is odd that in his figure of the under side of the female 
Megnin actually drew a caruncle and claw to the first leg. I suppose 
this must be an oversight. 
I have found the adults of this species tolerably common and 
generally distributed in England, in moss. I also once found a large 
number in the nest of one of the bumble-bees ( Bombus ). The nymph 
is found attached to the legs of beetles, such as Geotrupes stercorarius, 
&c., and to some other insects. 
Uropoda Krameri Can. 
Uropoda Krameri Can., ‘ Acari nuovi o poco noti,’ p. 8 (1884). 
„ „ „ * Prospetto dell’ Acarofauna Ital.,’ Parte 1 
(1885) p. 105. 
„ „ Berl., 4 Acari, Scorp. e Miriap. Ital.,* fasc. 11, 
No. 7. 
„ „ Michael, “ Obsns. on the Special Internal Anat. of 
TJ. Krameri this Journal, 1889, p. 1. 
There has been a doubt whether this species might not also be 
the Notaspis oralis of Kramer * and the TJropoda ovalis of the same 
author ; t but the genital plate (epigynium) of the female is broader in 
Krameri than in Kramer's ovalis , and also is set further back, its 
hind edge being considerably behind the coxae of the fourth legs, 
whereas in Kramer’s ovalis it is on a level with them, and there are 
other differences. Anyhow Kramer’s name cannot stand because he 
gives it identifying the species with Koch’s Notaspis ovalis , which is 
an error ; neither Kramer’s nor Canestrini’s are Koch’s species. 
I found this species in great numbers on the floors and walls of a 
hay-barn in Derbyshire. I have also found it in Cornwall, near the 
Land’s End. 
Uropoda campomolendina Berlese. 
Uropoda campomolendina Berl., 4 Acari &c. Ital.,’ fasc. xlv. No. 2. 
I found one pair of this species, male and female, at Kensworth 
in Hertfordshire in 1889, in moss. 
* “ Zur Naturgeschichte einiger Gattungen,” &c., Arcliiv Naturges., 1876, p. 73. 
t “ Ueber Gamasiden,” op. cit., 1882, p. 408. 
