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Moth,” and also the note early in our British observations (see p. 96) 
of the infestation being especially observed in Hungarian flours, it is 
of some interest to receive it directly from an Adriatic port and also 
from an Hungarian mill. 
“Hay Mite.” Tyroglyphus longior, Gervais. 
TyrociypHus Loncior.—T’.. longior, from figure by Fumoze and Robin; claw 
with sucker of T'yroglyphus ; right-hand side, from Murray’s ‘ Aptera’; left-hand 
side, figured by Editor from life. All magnified. 
The following observation referring to what is sometimes known 
as the ‘‘ Hay Mite”’ (the T'yroglyphus longior scientifically) is the first 
note I have had of it being observed in connection with oatstacks. 
This Mite, which is very nearly allied to our common Cheese Mite, is 
not unfrequently noticed as having fallen from haystacks, or from hay 
stored in lofts, so as to le in such great masses round the stacks, or 
beneath the haylofts, that the quantities of dust-like heaps could be 
shovelled together, and in one instance an enquirer (although the 
Mites are not really injurious) had been advised to burn his stacks to 
get rid of them. 
The infestation has been occasionally reported from English and 
Trish localities, but chiefly from Scotland; but as I have never until 
last season had any notes of this Mite presence infesting oatstacks, I 
give the following observation of it with which I was favoured on 
October 2nd, from Allerston, Pickering, Yorkshire, by Mr. Herbert 
Prodham :— 
«« By the same post as this letter Isend you a small box containing 
a quantity of little Aphis or Mites that I have got from our stack- 
yard. . . . There are twelve or thirteen stacks in the yard of 
Wheat, Barley, and Oats, but the Mites are only found lying around 
two stacks of Oats, having apparently dropped out of the ends of the 
sheaves, and are there in myriads, and in places there is a thickness 
