Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 93. Tetrunychus lapidus. Fig. 94. Eggs of the same. M. Duges has described another and smallerspecies, ;with similar habits, under the name ofTetranychus glabrus, but which he says is so veryminute that it is scarcely visible to the naked figure is given (fig. 102) belonging to the presentspecies, and is copied from the one furnished byM. Duges. *^v , K. Fig. 95. Tetrunychus major. Another species, which may be called the Laurus-tinus mite, having a long appendage (Tetran

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Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . Fig. 93. Tetrunychus lapidus. Fig. 94. Eggs of the same. M. Duges has described another and smallerspecies, ;with similar habits, under the name ofTetranychus glabrus, but which he says is so veryminute that it is scarcely visible to the naked figure is given (fig. 102) belonging to the presentspecies, and is copied from the one furnished byM. Duges. *^v , K. Fig. 95. Tetrunychus major. Another species, which may be called the Laurus-tinus mite, having a long appendage (Tetranychuscaudatus), is found in colonies on the lower sur-face of the leaves of the Laurustinus, but has notyet been recorded in Britain. Already allusion has been made to the SocialMite (Tetranychus socius), of which a figure is now given (fig. 96). It is of a pale colour, and alsoprefers to consort in colonies. The Plum-tree Mite (Tetranychus prunicolor)is said by Gervais to be found in the months of

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