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side, and a longer spine at tip ; fifth claw-like, with a spine on 

 inner side before the middle (in C. taurus beyond the middle). 

 Cephalothorax with four long hairs; legs, slender, especially 

 the tarsi, with a few short, fine hairs, one on the middle of 

 l^enultimate joint of hind legs is longer than the others. Length 

 .5 nnn. 



From Washington, D. C, May, on leaves. C. quaclripilis, 

 which is similar, has shorter mandibles, second and third palpal 

 joints shorter, and the fifth joint has no spine, but a fine bristle 

 from near base. 



CHEYLETID^ 



Clieyletus cocciphilus n. sp. 



Body but little longer than broad, divided by furrow in 

 middle, surface granulate above;, cephalothorax with a sub- 

 median row of four scale-like hairs, and a submarginal row of 

 three similar hairs ; on abdomen are similar rows, but the scales 

 are less broad, and near tip of the body, hardly more than 

 thickened hairs, a lateral scale at broadest part of body on the 

 posterior part of the cephalothorax. Legs not as long as width 

 of the body ; leg I with three scales, and other legs with thick- 

 ened, often curved, hairs; leg I ends in two very long simple 

 hairs. The head has a scale in front each side of the beak, 

 and each palpus has two scales above. Each palpus ends in 

 three combs, and two curved bristles. Length .3 mm. 



From orange twigs infested with purple scale from Maya- 

 guez, Porto Rico, April 30, (Carnes). 



RHYNCHOLOPHID^ 



Rhyncliolo pirns moestus n. sp. 



Red. Body hardly twice as long as broad, broadly rounded 

 behind, much narrowed in front, covered with many fine short 

 hairs ; on the frontal lobe are some long stiff bristles. The dorsal 

 groove reaches almost to the abdomen, with a pair of pits or 

 sensill« at each end of it; one eye-spot each side on cephalo- 

 thorax. Legs slender, first and fourth pairs hardly longer than 



