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legs, the long tactile hairs on the 3d. article of the legs 
.(read 4th, for he evidently overlooked the short trochanter) 
are decidedly not Anoetus-Wke. Also the claws are, as to 
me, too big for the genus. * 
And in the Ent. Ber. v. 6. n. 133. Sept. 1923. p. 206. 
I proposed the new family of Nodipalpidae to receive the 
Only known genus. 
Now, whilst engaged in setting down my „Key” above, 
1 again read KARPELLES’ description and studied his bad 
figures. In his description the words: „Manche Exemplare 
haben an der Bauchfläche des Céphalothorax die beiden 
Stielchen, wie sie die sechsfiissigen Larven mancher Tyro- 
glyphen zeigen”, struck me again. I could not make it 
out! But, some days afterwards, I studied the different 
species of Anoetus, delineated by Berlese in his main 
work Acari, Myriopoda et Scorpio nes. 1 was 
suddenly struck by his tabula of Hypopus fimetarias (IX, 7), 
where he figures the ventral surface of a 3 * with such 
„Stielchen”. Also in his fig. 5 such an organ is given 
separately, more magnified. At once 1 conceived, that my 
old supposition of 1902 was the right one, and that 1 was 
wrong in changing it in the past year. Comparing now 
KARPELLES’ description and figures with those of BERLESE, 
1 now am convinced of it, that Nodipalpus is synonym 
to Anoetus, and Nodipalpus ulmi with Anoetus fimetarius. 
So the family Nodipalpidae falls, being synonym to Anoetidae. 
... Twice I kindly begged to pray the Director of the 
Natural History Museum in Budapest to send me KARPELLES’ 
preparations, in order to examine them. My letters seem 
to have not reached him. 
Fam. Anoetidae Oudms. 1904. 
To the known characteristics (vide: Ent. Ber. v. 6. n. 
135. p. 227) add: No pseudostigmatic organs. No clasping 
organs. The vertical hairs are short, placed on the foremost 
edge and bent downwards, or they are absent by caducity. 
What hitherto has been considered as vertical hairs are the 
nuchal ones. The $ genital aperture is a transversal slit 
between propodo- and hysterosoma, as 1 have, in truth, 
already in 1916 pointed out in Anoetus guentheri, at present 
