MITES OF FAMILY CHEYLETIDAE — BAKER 313 



6. Palpal femur li/^ to 1% as long as wide ; palpal claws with 2 or 3 teeth. 



docta Berlese 

 Palpal femur more than twice as long as wide ; palpal claw with 3 or 4 teeth. 



callida Kuzin 



ACAROPSIS MERICOURTI (Laboulbene) 



Tyroglyplius mericourti Laboulbene, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 2, vol. 9, p. 302, 



pi. 9, fig. 4, 1851. 

 Acaropsis pectinata (Laboulbene) Moquin-Tandon, Elements de zoologie 



medicale . . . , p. 314, 1863. 

 Acaropsis mericourti (Laboulbene) Oxjdemans, Mtoi. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 19, 



p. 163, 1906. 



Type habitat. — Unknown. 



Type locality. — Newfoundland, Canada. 



ACAROPSIS KULAGINI Rodendorf 



Acaropsis kulagini Rodendorf, Wiss. Ber. Moskauer Staats Univ. Zool., vol. 42, 

 p. 78, 1940. 



Type habitat. — In Indian-corn grain. 



Type locality. — Stavropolsk and Blagodarnoe, Union of Soviet 

 Socialist Republics. 



ACAROPSIS TRAVISI, new species 



Plate 16, Figubes 131-135 



Female. — Palpi and rostrum long; palpal femur about lYn times as 

 long as broad, outer margin swollen and inner margin more or less 

 straight ; palpal setae simple ; genual seta on posterior margin of seg- 

 ment ; apparently 8 basal teeth on palpal claw ; palpal comb about two- 

 thirds as long as claw, with about 14 long teeth. Peritreme of strong 

 segments as figured. Single pair of eyes ; dorsal setae short, lanceolate, 

 serrate. Propodosomal shield hard to distinguish, wider anteriorly 

 than posteriorly, longer than wide, with five pairs of marginal setae, 

 three pairs in the anterior corners and two pairs in the posterior 

 corners. A pair of very long shoulder setae about 100/^ long, and 

 anterior to these a pair of short setae. Hysterosomal shield very small, 

 hard to distinguish, without setae but with setae near the anterior and 

 posterior margins as figured ; other dorsal hysterosomal setae arranged 

 as figured. Genital area with two pairs of simple setae; three pairs 

 of anal setae. Legs normal, leg I about 200/^ long ; leg IV about IQQfi 

 long; leg setae similar to body setae; tarsus I, 73/x long, tibia I, 33/ut 

 long ; tarsus sensory seta long, rodlike, guard seta minute ; tibia with 

 short, slightly clavate sensory seta, other setae simple. Length of body 

 25Sfi, including rostrum 386/x; width 153/*. 



Type host. — Sceloporus looodi. 



Type locality. — Newton, Ga. 



ry^e— U.S.N.M. No. 1776. 



