150 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, '15 



Family IXODIDAE. 

 Ixodes Latreille. 



I. cookei Pack. New Jersey, (Tech. Series No. 15, U. S. Bur. Ent.) 

 Common on small mammals. 



Haemaphysalis Koch. 

 H. chordeilis Pack. The bird tick. Undoubtedly occurs in New 



Jersey. 

 H. leporis-palustris Pack. Occurs on rabbits. 



Amblyomma Koch. 



A. americanum Linn. Undoubtedly occurs in New Jersey. The 

 Lone Star Tick. Has a wide range of hosts. 



Dermacentor Koch. 



D. variabilis Say. Milltown, Glassboro, Bridgeton, southern New 

 Jersey. The dog or wood tick. 



Family GAMASIDAE. 

 Dermanyssus Duges. 



D. gallinae Redi. New Brunswick, Hammonton, Vineland, Bridge- 

 ton and other parts of the state. The chicken mite. 



Celaenopsis Berlese. 

 C. latus Bks. Anglesea. 



Laelaps Koch. 

 L. multispinosus Bks. New Jersey. On muskrat. May. 



Macrocheles Latreille. 



M. badius Koch. College farm, May 19, 1914. Taken on Scato- 

 phaga stercoraria Linn. C. H. Richardson. Also common in 

 manure. 



M. marginatus Herm. Nutley, 7-22-14. On Allorhina nitida. H. 

 B. W. 



Family ORIBATIDAE. 



Nothrus Koch. 

 N. truncatus Bks. Anglesea. 



Family TARSONEMIDAE. 



Tarsonemus Canestrini. 



T. pallidus Bks. Hoboken. On chrysanthemums in greenhouse. 



J. B. Smith. 



T. waitei Bks. Undoubtedly occurs in New Jersey. The peach 

 bud mite. Attacks terminal buds or shoots, usually on nur- 

 sery trees. 



Pediculoides Targioni-Tozzetti. 



P. ventricosus Newport. New Brunswick, southern New Jersey. 

 Attacks larvae of Angoumois grain moth and Bruchus quadri- 

 maculatus. Also man causing a skin eruption. 



