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beekeepers. While it does not prevent the novice or new beekeeper 

 from competing in other departments, it does afford him an opportunity 

 to display his products and to feel that he has some chance to win a 

 premium in fair competition with similar novices. This wholesome 

 competition, too, encourages the beginner beekeeper to enter the 

 larger competitions in succeeding years. Such a provision in the 

 premium list for any fair is highly commendable. 



Beside the strictly competitive displays, space is provided for con- 

 cessioners who have honey in all its forms, wax, and honey-sandwiches 

 for sale. Those who have charge of the Connecticut Fair, inform the 

 writer that this is an excceedingly important provision, being prof- 

 itable not only for the concessioners, but also for the management. 

 It is explained that the concessions attract a certain class of people 

 who might not otherwise enter the pavilion. Moreover, it is a means 

 of income to the beekeepers. 



Combining these several features of the carefully selected schedule, 

 liberal premiums, an attractive and ample building, classes for the 

 professional and novice, concessions where products are for sale, and 

 the public demonstrations of living bees, presents a most remarkable 

 beekeeping show. Furthermore, the attendance at this Fair probably 

 exceeded several hundred thousand. For the beekeepers, therefore, 

 it cannot help but be a most wholesome stimulus, and a wise method 

 of promoting interests in bees and their products among the people 

 at large. 



NEW SPECIES OF MAPLE MITES 



By H. E. HoDGKiss, Geneva, N. Y. 



A systematic study of the Eriophyidse subsisting on maples has 

 shown the existence of a greater variety of forms than have hereto- 

 fore been known to occur on these trees. Four species of the mites 

 have been mentioned as inhabiting maples in this country, which 

 are included in the genera Phyllocoptes and Oxypleurites.^ In our 

 later studies individuals have been discovered which belong in the 

 genera Eriophyes and Anthocoptes, the last-named genus not before 

 being known to occur in North America. The species which have 

 not previously been described may be recognized by the following 

 general characters: 



AnUwcoptes transitionalis sp. nov. The body is very large with a broad, beak- 

 shaped thoracic shield which projects abruptly downward over the rostrum. The 

 dorsum is highly arched and the stria; are 21 in number, of which the anterior eight 



1 Jour. Econ. Ent. 1 : 311-313. 1908. 



