THE 
CUTICULAR MITE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Legs eight. 
Eyes two, one on each side the head. 
Tentacula two (in some species) resembling legs. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
MITE with the thighs of the four upper legs 
very thick, with slender tubular tibias; of 
the four lower ovate-elongated, with ex¬ 
tremely long setaceous tibi®. 
The Itch-insect. 
PL/. Trans. No. 283. pi. Q. f, 127 , 128. 
Baker's Microscope made easy, p. 1 O 9 . 
pi. 13. f. 2. a. b. 
The Hand-Worm. 
Moujf. The at r. Ins. 
The Acarus exulcerans or Cutaneous Mite, makes its 
appearance in the present publication in consequence of 
a remarkable erratum in the letter-press of the sixth 
volume of General Zoology, in which the name of Baker 
is, through oversight, printed, in the description of the 
inseft, instead of Adams, the name of the ingenious 
communicator of the specimens there described. 
Dr. Adams, during his residence in the Madeiras, 
had 
