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as long as in T. lintneri; in the female the bristles not as long as the 

 body, in the male plainly as long as the body ; also long humeral and 

 cephalic bristles. In male the legs I and II are plainly larger than in 

 the female; no spines on tarsi, only fine hairs, that at tip of penulti- 

 mate joint as long as the tarsus, sense-hair on tarsus I longer than 

 width of the joint at that place; tarsus I about as long as the two 

 preceding joints together; tarsus IV slender, plainly a little longer 

 than the two preceding joints together, only a faint, short hair at 

 the tip of the hind tarsus. 

 Length, .35 mm. 



From St. Croix, Danish West Indies, June 14, 1913, on 

 sugar cane (D. Longfield Smith). 



Chortoglyphus gracilipes n. sp. (PI. XIV, fig. 2). 



Colorless. Body broad, subglobose, in front the mouth parts form 

 a prominent beak, the mandibles are very large and short, the palpi 

 with slender joints. No hairs above on body. Legs very slender, but 

 not nearly as long as the body ; the femora, patellae and tibiae are 

 subequal in length, the tarsi extremely slender and nearly as long 

 as the three preceding joints together; claws minute, all tibiae with a 

 very long hair at tip, and in hind legs some hairs near apex of femora 

 and patellae ; tarsi with a hair toward base beneath, but no preapical 

 ones visible. Genital aperture of female very large, as large as en- 

 tire beak, nearly as broad as long, angulate in front. At tip of body 

 is a prominent down-curved spine, and each side of it a fine hair. 



Length, .3 mm. 



From Tampa, Florida, August 5, in tobacco infested with 

 the cigarette beetle (Runner). The first record of this genus 



in our country. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 

 PLATE XIV. 



Fig. i. Tyroglyphus sacchari, legs I and IV. 



2. Chortoglyphus gracilipes, under side. 



3. Tetranobia deccpta, mandible, palpus and spiracular horn. 



4. Notophallus viridis, tarsus, palpus. 



5. Tctranychus antillarum, palpus, mandible. 



6. Spelacorhynchus latus, dorsum. 



/. Tetranychina apicalis, side, tarsus I, and palpus. 

 8. Spelaeorhynchus latus, sternum and spiracle. 



PLATE XV. 



g. Stigmacopsis cclarius, tarsus I, palpus with supramandibular plate. 



10. Tyroglyphus sacchari, tip of abdomen. 



11. Stigmacopsis cclarius, dorsum. 



12. Iphiopsis obcsus, venter, peritreme, caroncle and epistome. 



13. Tctranychus antillarum, leg I. 



14. Notophallits liridis, leg I. 



15. Tetranobia decepta, leg I. 



