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Volume 88, 1960-61
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Family Uropodidae

The second and third specimens, Dominion Museum Slide Nos. 4/332 and 4/333, probably belong to a species of the genus Oodinychus Berlese, but it is not

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possible, using the key of Evans (1957), to relate the specimens to a genus with certainty as the character on which a primary division is based, the presence or absence of claws on the first tarsi, cannot be ascertained. They are both from Bore I at 25 feet.