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from small plates ; near posterior margin of body a pair of long setae 

 and several pairs short setae. Two pairs of long setae arising near 

 genital opening and extending past margin of body. Legs short, leg 

 I reaching to tip of palpns and leg IV to posterior edge of abdomen. 

 Tarsus I with two claws and comblike pulvillus, and with simple 

 terminal setae. Tibia I with a short rodlike sensory seta and several 

 simple setae of varying lengths. Length of body 493/a, including ros- 

 trum 553/^; width 333/x,. 



Type host. — FringUla coelebs. 



Type locality. — ^Lyon, France. 



The above description is based on a United States National Museum 

 specimen which is from the Berlese collection. In Europe the mite 

 has been reported from Motacilla alba and FringUla coelehs. 



NEOCHEYLETIELLA PINGUIS (Berlese), new combination 



Cheyletiella pinguis Bkrlese, Acari, Myriapoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italia 



reperta, Prostigmata, fasc. 56, No. 3, fig. 2, 1889. 

 CJieletiella pinguis (Berlese) Oudemans, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 19, p. 213, 



1906. — WoMERSLEY, Rec. South Austral. Mus., vol. 7, No. 1, p. 59, figs. 6A, 



B, C, 1941. 



Type host. — Turdiis merula {=Merula nigra). 

 Type locality. — Florence, Italy. 



Genus CHSLETOIDES Oudemans 



Chelefoides Oudemans, Ent. Ber. Nederl. Ver., vol. 1, fasc. 17, p. 154, 1904, 

 Type, Syringophilus uncinatus Heller (monotypic). 



CHELETOIDES UNCINATA (Heller) 



Syringophilus uncinatus Heller, Die Schmarotzer ... p. 188, 1880. 

 Cheletoidcs uncinatus (Heller) Oudemans, Ent. Ber. Nederl. Ver., vol. 1, fasc, 



17, p. 154, 1904. 

 Cheletoidcs uncinata (Heller) Oudemans, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 19, pp. 



204-211, figs. 63-66, 1906. 



Type host. — Pavo cristatus. 



Type locality. — Kiel, Germany. According to Oudemans (1906), 

 this species probably is to be found wherever the host is established. 



Genus CHEYLETUS Latreille 



Clieyletus Latreille, Precis des caract^res gSn^riques des insectes ... p. 179, 



1796. 

 Eutarsus Hessling, lUustr. Med. Zeit., vol. 1, p. 258, 1852. (Type, Eutarsus 



cancriformus Hessling (monotypic) — C'heyletus eruditus (Schrank).) 

 Chelctes (Latreille) Oudemans, Tijdschr. Ent, vol. 46, p. 121, 1903. 



Type, Acarus eruditus Schrank (monotypic). 



In the other genera of the Cheyletidae most of the species are based 

 on the females, but in Gheyletus we find some species based entirely 



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