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D.4. Without propodosomatic shield ; skin 
well chitinized; gnathosoma hidden 
and partly sunk in a hole on ventral 
side of propodosoma. Chortoglyphidae 
Berl. 1897. 
B. 2. Body Tyroglyphus- shaped ; mandibles stylet¬ 
shaped ; palps clavate; ambulacra with sessile 
claw only; legs short. Nodipalpidae OUDMS 1923. 
B. 3. Body more or less Tyroglyphus-s haped ; mandibles 
saw-, or knifelike; ambulacra with sessile claw 
only; distal joint of palpi with two flagella. 
Anoetidae OUDMS. 1904. 
B. 4. Body not Tyroglyphus -shaped ; skin dull, or 
rough by numerous fine, or distinct points; 
gnathosoma distinct; mandibles normal, chelate; 
tarsi gradually tapering towards their end, 
with caruncle, on the distal half, or on the end of 
which the claw is attached ; the latter often minute ; 
hairs on dorsum usually hairy, or feathered, or 
fan-shaped. Olycyphagidae BERL. 1887. 
B. 5. Body not Tyroglyphus-shaped , depressed, round, 
or oval, or lozenge-shaped, or almost quadran¬ 
gular; skin leathery, or scaly; mandibles normal 
chelate; ambulacra with pedunculate caruncle; 
claw wholly involuted in caruncle, often minute. 
No club-shaped olfactory hairs on tarsi I and 
11. Canestriniidae Berl. 1884. 
A. 2. Soft parts of body finely wrinkled; with propodoso¬ 
matic shield. 
B. 1. Maxillae and legs normal, not difformed to 
hold a hair. 
C. 1. Body flat; legs normal, crawling organs; 
generally more than one dorsal shield ; 
not burrowing cuniculi 
D. 1. Legs 1 and II normal, not spinous. 
E. 1. Epimera 1 in both sexes free. 
Dermoglyphidae MÉGN. & TRT. 
1883 p. 1319. ( Pterolichidae 
1883 p. 1320.) 
