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The species Tyroglyphiis farince is the old Aleurobius 

 farina. According to Banks it is not certain that T. 

 siro occurs in this country. He believes that many of 

 the references in literature to T. siro and T. longior 

 refer to a new species T. 

 americanus Banks, which 

 he finds abundant in the 

 collections of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at 

 Washington, D.C., and 

 recorded as occurring on 

 rotten plums, in flaxseed, 



Wheat, rice, COtton Seed, Fig. 95. --Tarsi J f< /F, and hairs, A, 

 . . . from T. longior, enlarged. 



and decaying oranges. 



The tarsi of T. longior are very long and the hairs of the 

 body are plumose as shown in Fig. 95 after Banks. 



References to Economic Literature on Cheese Mites 



1887. Lintner, J. A. — A mite infesting smoked meats. Third 

 Rept. Ins. N.Y., p. 130. 



1888. Canestrini, Giovanni. — Prospetto dell' acarofauna Itali- 

 ana, III, pp. 351-418. 



1888. Riley and Howard. — Mites infesting an old grain elevator. 

 Insect Life, Vol. 1, p. 51. 



1889. Lintner, J. A. — The cheese mite infesting smoked meats. 

 Fifth Rept. Ins. N.Y., p. 291. 



1889. The cheese mite infesting flour. Fifth Rept. Ins. N.Y., 



p. 294. 



1890. Riley and Howard. — Mites in a warm-house. Insect 

 Life, Vol. Ill, p. 162. 



1896. Howard, L. O. — The cheese, ham, and flour mites. Bull. 4, 



n.s., Bu. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agri., p. 100. 

 1906. Banks, Nathan. — A revision of the Tyroglyphidae of the 



United States. Tech. Bull. 13, Bu. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agri. 



