180 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRAr.IAN MUSEUM. 



Genus Tyroglyphus, Latr. 



Tyroglyphus queenslandicus, (jancst. 



Ti/ror/li/phiisi ijiicenslaudiciis, Canest., Atti. 1st. Venet., (6), ii., 1885, 

 p.' 721. 



fhib. — Queensland (on a Cetonid beetle). 



Tyroglyphus entomophagus, Lahoub. 



Tyrofilyphus entonuiphagiis, Laboub., An. Soc. Ent. France, 1862. 

 Tt/roc/lyjjJiK.s entomop/KK/Ks, Murray, Econom. Entom. (n.d.), p. 

 263. 



Hab. — Cosmopolitan ; Australia (introduced). Attacks en- 

 tomological collections. According to Murray, " large insects, 

 with the body full of fatty particles, those which have not lived 

 long or which have been brought up in captivity, and which have 

 not paired, and those which have become iireosi/ (to use the 

 technical expression), are most liable to attack." 



Tyroglyphus siro, Linn. 

 Ti/ronlt/ji/iiis sini, Linn., Syst. Nat., x. ed., 1758, p. 616. 

 Acan(s .s/ro, Linn., loc. cit. 



Tijroiili/jihiis fiirn, Murra}^, Econom. Entom., (n.d.), p. 267, with 

 figs. 



Hab. — Cosmopolitan; Australia (introduced). Infests cheese, 

 grain, dried meats. 



Geniix. PuLTEA, Canest. 



PULTEA DISCOIDALIS, Canest. 



Fiiltea (liacoidalh, Canest., Atti. 1st. Venet., (6), ii., 1885, p. 720, 

 pi. vi., f. 1. 



Hab. — Australia (on a phytophagus beetle). 



Genus Aleurobius, Canest. 



Aleurobius farix.e, De Geev. 



Aleurobius farime, De Geer, Mem. Inst., vii., 1778, p. 97. 

 Acarns fariniE, De Geer, loc. cit. 



Hab. — Cosmopolitan ; Australia (introduced). Infests flour, 

 grain, and stored foods. Does not appear to be common. 



06s.— Tryon refers to and figures a fungus-eating Tyroglyphid 

 mite (? gen. et sp.).'^ 



■21 Ti-yon — Qiieensl. Agric. Journ., 1898, p. -i56, pi. Ixxi., f. 3, 4. 



