1947] 
Acarina from North Carolina 
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flagellaris , especially the tarsi beyond the swelling; the 
bulb at tip of front tibia is plainly a little broader than 
long, and almost touches the swelling on base of tarsus ; 
the bind femora are plainly pedicellate, and all patellae 
are quite long ; the tarsi are very hairy. 
Length A mm. 
From the Duke Univ. Forest, Durham, N. Car., num- 
bers 238, 487. 
From the fourteen words of description of Berlese it is 
hardly possible to recognize this species, but the figure 
agrees in several particulars. However, the most char- 
acteristic points in the legs are not given, since the legs 
were not figured. His figure shows a long simple seta, 
but it is possible that the whip-lash tip was lost. 
Zetorchestes equestris Berl. 
Fig. 26 
One specimen from Duke Forest ; it is apparently rare ; 
I had never seen it, and none in the Jacot collection. 
The body is broadly rounded except in front, where it 
comes to a point. The first three coxae are close together 
in front, the hind coxae situated much further back. Hind 
legs much longer and stouter than the others, with a spine 
at tip of tibia, and two on outer edge of tarsus. Ventral 
openings connected by borders, the anal much the larger, 
broadest toward rear, genital not nearly so long and 
about two-thirds as broad, more than its length behind 
the third coxae. Tarsi of front legs rather slender, nearly 
twice as long as tibia. Above the cephalothorax has a 
lateral dark lamella on outer side, two-thirds of length 
of cephalothorax. The seta is paddle-shaped, a slender 
stalk and a large flat ovoid tip, somewhat lined and with 
numerous minute points. 
Length .4 mm. 
Xenillus occultus sp. nov. 
Figs. 5, 7 
Dull brownish rufous ; surface very minutely rough- 
ened; body about two-thirds as broad as long, broadly 
rounded behind, and there with a few erect hairs, each 
