ZOOLOGICAL LITISWATUKE. 
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Al)ELAimiROSO]\IiVl’A, 
S0L?ygip^, 
Becker observes that Solpuga araneoides 4ies in a fe'v? 4ays in ponfinPW^ent. 
Bull. Soc. Nat, Mpsc. xxxvii. ]pt, p. 486, 
CHELiyEI^IDiE. 
Stainton records the occurrence, in 1866, of an unusual number of speci- 
niens pf Chelifer attached to the le^s of flies, and states that the Chelifer 
never quits |ts hold of a fly upon which it has seized. Proc, !pnt. Soc. 1866^ 
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ACARINA, 
Jxgp{|>iE, 
Cox cnlls attention to the occasional occurrence of great numbers of Ixodes 
pluml)eu8 in dog-kennels. Prop. Ent. Soc. pp. 82 & 83. The wood of 
Major Cox’s kennel was destroyed, as he supposed by the Ticks j but this 
notion was negatived by Westwood and Saunders. See also 1. c. p. 85. 
Ixodes ricinus. Thp habits and treatment pf this and other species are 
referred to by Simonds. JTourn. Agric. Spc. ser. 2. yoj. i. pp. 39-43, 
(tAMASIPiP. 
The occurrence of numerous red Mites sympieirically arranged upon the 
wings of a Caradrim is recorded by Stainton. Proc. Ent. Soc, 1866, p. 112. 
Lais, g. n., Filippi, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, ser. 2**®, tome xxi. p. Ixxii. 
Female with tracheae, having two stigmata at the sides of the neck. Abdo- 
men in pregnant $ developed into a sphere of a diameter equal to six times 
the lengih ’of the body, which pontains the generative organs and the young. 
The species, L. heterogyne^ of which no further characters are giypn, is found 
in grca^ abundance jn an oak-gall, probably produced by a 
AcARIDaE. 
Frauenfeld (Ycrh^ zooh~bot. Qes. in Wicn^ Bd. xy, pp. 896, 8^6, aad §98, 
899) remarks upon the effects produced by Mites, especially of the genus 
PhytopttiSy upon various plants, and refers particularly to the production of 
the so-called Phylleriaceae. 
Tetranychus lintearkis produces winte spots on the lower surface of the 
leaves of Camellia japonica at Marseilles, according to Laboulbene. Bull. 
§oc. Ent, Fr. 1866, p. xlii. 
Icarus fioffece, a species said by Nietuer to be injurious to the coffee-trees 
in Geylon is noticed by Qu^rin. Bey, et Mag. de Zool. 1864, pp, 121 & 122. 
Stone records the occurrence of a species of Acarus in great nnnibers in a 
nest of Vespa sylvestris. Proc. Ent. Soc. 1866, p. 63. 
Phytoptus. Frauenfeld (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wicn, Bd. xy.) describes 
the following new species of this genus : — P. coryli, 1. c. p. 263 \ P. carpini^ 
1. c. p. 896 j P, gramdatus and campestricola, 1. c. p. 897 j and P* evonyvn, 1. o. 
p. 898. 
