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to enable the species to be clearly identified by an observer who lias 
a specimen of it in his hands. 
This mite is about 0.015 long. Its body is opakc and of a brown color, like the 
weathered surface of wood, its border all around being pale, as are the legs also. It 
is nearly square or quadrangular, and as broad as long, or perhaps somewhat broader 
across its fore part, and slightly shouldered or humped on each side. Its anterior 
end is rapidly narrowed and prolonged in the middle into a beak, having the feelers 
appressed to its sides. The feelers are three-jointed, the first joint only being seen 
when viewed from above. This joint is cylindric, a third longer than thick, and 
reaches slightly beyond the end of the beak. The second joint is shortest and held 
perpendicularly downward at right angles with the first and third, which last is 
longest and more slender, over twice as long as thick, and held horizontally back¬ 
ward. They are all bearded with inclined bristles on their outer sides. At its hind 
end the body is cut off transversely and is conspicuously notched in the middle, the 
notch abrupt and somewhat square, more wide than deep, with a convex projection 
or small lobe in its middle. Close upon each side of this notch are two coarse 
bristles projecting backward. The eight legs are about equal in length, more than 
double the length of the body, thread-like, bearded with inclined bristles, which are 
coarser toward the feet. They are six-jointed, the basal joint more short and thick; 
the second, third and fourth joints equal, cylindric and thrice as long as thick, the 
second and third having each a long coarse bristle arising from their middle, and 
the fourth having some coarse, thorny points at its tip, and one near its middle; the 
fifth joint a third longer than the preceding joints and slightly tapering; the sixth 
joint more slender and shorter than the sub-basal joints, and ending in a long conic 
point, except in the fore legs, which terminate in a triangular pellet. 
Earwig-fly, Merope tube?', Newman. (Neuroptera. Panorpidae.) 
A singular insect, forming the type of a new genus, and in several 
of its prominent characters quite dissimilar to the insects to which it 
appears to be most nearly related, was discovered in our State, at 
Trenton Falls, by the late Edward Doubleday, in the year 1837. He 
met with only a single specimen, a female. From this specimen a 
short description was drawn by E. Newman, and published the 
following year in the Entomological Magazine, vol. v, page 180. 
Mr. Newman there named it the Merope tuber, the generic term 
Merope being the astronomical name of one of the smaller Pleiades or 
stars arising to view in the spring of the year; and the specific name 
tuber having allusion to a remarkable appendage of this insect, a small 
semicircular callus, like an excrescence, growing upon the inner edge 
of its fore wings near the base. This unique specimen was subsequently 
examined and its mouth was carefully dissected by Mr. Westwood, 
who communicated a more full description, with figures of its several 
parts, to the London Entomological Society, which was published in 
the Society’s Proceedings, vol. v, plate xiv, fig. 2, a to l. 
Of this rare and remarkable insect, I, eighteen years ago, captured 
