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. (1. c. p. 233), the title of which to be regarded as an injurious insect is no t 
very clear, and of various species of Trombidium, especially T. telarium and 
T, phalangii (1. c. pp. 234-237), 
The occurrence of Ixodes sulcatus (Koch) on Sitta europcea is recorded by 
Key (Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. xxix. p. 202). 
Ixodes. The following new species from Queensland are described by L. Koch 
(Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii.) : — I. decorosus, p. 241, on Hijdrosaurus 
giganteus (Gray) ; I. morelicBj ibid., on Morelia argus ; and /. varani, p. 242, 
on Hydrosaurus giganteus. 
Lucas mentions his having received specimens of his Ixodes gervaisU, of 
which the S had their rostrum inserted into the abdomen of the $ , so as to 
draw their nourishment from the latter. The type specimen of I. Jlavomacu- 
latUy described by Lucas in 1846, was a <5* . Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1867, p. Ixxii. 
Lucas notices a species of this genus found on a mare suflering from a 
pustular eruption. The Ixodes fed upon the fluid of the pustules } and Lucas 
proposes for it the name of I. imstularum. Ibid. 1866, p. Ivii. 
Tyroglyphus feculce. Gudrin-M6ieville records the occurrence of a species 
to which he gives this name among some potatoes stored at Vincennes. 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866, pp. Ixiii, Ixiv. 
A. Mulleh records the occurrence of Trombidium lapidum in great abun- 
dance near Penge, and notices the presence of 2 examples of Acarus pha^ 
langii (Bej.) on a specimen of Lagria hirta. Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 71. 
F. Low (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. p. 745) remarks upon the 
occurrence of mites parasitically attached to Insects. He has found tlio 
young of Trombidium adhering to Temiopteryx trifasciata (Piet.), which is 
the more remarkable as the preparatory states of this insect are passed in 
the water. He has also met with Gamasidee attached to Hylesinus fraxini 
(Fab.), to species of Dytiscus, and along the veins of the fore wings in 
LibclhdcB. 
Lucas notices the occurrence of minute octopod specimens of a Oamasus 
upon Hylesinus fraxini. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1867, p. Ixviii. 
T. J. Bold records the occurrence of Acarina on the abdomen of Corixa 
beneath the wings. Ent. M. Mag. iv. p. 213. 
Moriggia describes (Atti Accad. Sci. Torino, i. pp. 449-463) and figures a 
singular homy excrescence of great length growing from the back of the 
hand of a lady, [and containing in its cavities great quantities of Acarus do- 
mesticus. The excrescence was nearly eight inches in length, tapering up- 
wards from a wide base, and curved towards the wrist. 
J. Lemaire (Comptes Kendus, Ixv. pp. 215, 216) communicates the parti- 
culars of a case in which a Mexican parasite, the Tlalsahuate, apparently a 
species of mite, made its appearance in France. 
Smaridia extraneuy sp. n., L. Koch, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii; 
p. 242, Queensland. 
Gamasus Jlavolimhatus, sp. n., L. Koch, 1. c. p. 243, Queensland. 
Tyroglyphus sicidus, sp. n., Fermouze & Kobin, Cantharide officinale, p. , 
pi. . . 
Rhipicephalus carinatus. Frauenfeld, Verh. zoot.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. 
p. 462, on board ship in the Chinese sea j It. rubicundus, Frauenf. ibid., on 
board ship in the Sunda sea. 
