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A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE OPILIONES The Harvestmen are spider-like creatures with eight long legs, the tarsi long and very flexible. Eyes simple, two in number, situated on each side of an eye eminence. Body not divided into two distinct regions by a narrow pedicle, as in the spiders. Abdomen segmentate ; breathing apparatus consisting of tracheal tubes ^^-ith external stigmata at the base of the fourth pair of legs. 233. Phalanpum opiRo, Linnaeus. Blackpool. Known also as Phalangtum cornutum, Linnaeus. 234. Phahn^um parietinuttt, De Geer. Duddon Vale. Found in plenty on the walls of outhouses, squatting in a small hoUow. Its appearance is an infallible sign of the approach of autumn. 235. Megabunus insignis, Meade. Kirkby, Rev. J. H. Bloom (O. P.-C). Easily known by the long spikes on the eye- eminence. 236. Oligolophut mono, Fabricius. Coniston. Known also as Pia/angium morio and Phaknpum umigerum, Hermann. 237. Oligplofhus agrestis, Meade. Duddon Vale. Known also as Opilio agrestis and OFtgolophus epMppiger, Simon. 238. Nemastoma lugubre, O. F. Moller. Duddon Vale. Known also as Phaknpum lugubre and 'Nemastoma bimaculatum, Fabricius. 239. Nemastoma chiysomclas, Hermann. Duddon Vale. Known also as Phalaitffum chrysomelas. 156