44 PROCEEDINGS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



1913 MORGAN, ALFRED COOKMAN, New Genera and Species of Thysanop- 

 tera, with Notes on Distribution and Food Plants, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 46, pp. 1-55, figs. 1-79. Odontothrips phaleratus (Haliday) 

 recorded for the first time from North America; original descrip- 

 tions of Frankliniella bispinosa (Morgan), F. floridense (Morgan), 

 F. yossypii (Morgan), and F. runneri (Morgan), all of which were 

 assigned to Euthrips. 



A NEW MITE FROM THURBERIA. 



BY NATHAN BANKS, Bureau of Entomology. 

 Eriophyes thurberiae n.sp. 



Body but little more than three times as long as broad, tapering but 

 little behind; the cephalic plate rather narrow in front, with lines, and 

 two rather long dorsal setse. Abdomen with about fifty rings, plainly 

 punctured; first ventral setae fully as long as width of body, second pair 

 not noticeable, third pair not as long as width of body, caudal setae 

 heavier, as long as twice width of body. Legs very short, hardly as long 

 as one-half of width of body, last joint (fifth) nearly as long as preceding 

 joint, but very much more slender, third joint about as long as fourth 

 and fully as thick. Length, 140 /j.. 



Inhabits much-folded gall on leaves of Thurberia thespesioides, 

 near Tucson, Arizona (Pierce coll.). 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



The Entomological Society of Washington is indebted to 

 Entomological News through Dr. P. P. Calvert for the use of the 

 plate from which the frontispiece of this number is printed. 



Actual date of publication March 3, 1914. 



