There are now a number of Vitali covering properties which have been defined to handle problems arising in differentiation theory. Although some of these have received a unified treatment, as for example in the setting of Orlicz spaces in [1, p. 168], the underlying simplicity can be lost and the intimate connection with the original weak Vitali covering property of de Possel obscured. In this note we present an exposition of a family of covering properties and show how the original methods of de Possel in [4] can be pushed to provide an exact solution of the problem of determining necessary and sufficient covering properties for a basis which is known to differentiate a given class of integrals.