382 The American Naturalist. [April, 
chestnut brown, shiny, subreticulately wrinkled. Removed from the 
bark it leaves a rather indistinct white patch. 
2 “ Derm orange-yellow, with gland orifices. Marginal hairs short, 
scattered. 
“ Antenne seven-pointed, 7th joint about $ longer than 1st, emitting 
4 or 5 long hairs. 1, very broad, a little broader than long. 2, about 
as long as 1 is broad, 3 a little longer than 2 ; 4 a little longer than 3, 
the point between 3 and 4 being almost indistinguishable, causing 3 
and 4 to appear as one long joint. 5, two-thirds as long as 2. 6, a 
little longer than 5. Formula 4(73)2165. 
“ Legs: coxa short, broad, has one hair ; trochanter almost as long as 
coxa; femur 2 times as long as coxa; tibia { as long as femur ; tarsus 
shorter than tibia. Claw small, not curved. Big knobbed digitule on 
tarsus larger and thicker than on claw. Anai ring with long hairs, 
perhaps only 6.” (Joseph Bennett, MS.) 
Hab.—On Sassfras, Lake Mohonk, Greene Co., N. Y., June 15, 
1894. Found by Dr. Lintner, to whom it is dedicated in recognition of 
his great services to N. Y. Entomology. The material was small in 
amount, and were the species not so very distinct from anything yet 
described I should hestitate to publish it. The scale is not very unlike 
that of some Pulvinaria, but there is no ovisac, though young had been 
produced by the specimens examined. - Lecanium tulipifere Cook, as 
figured by its author, looks as if it might possibly be this species; but 
the figures are bad, and I have received from Mr. L. O. Howard good 
specimens of tulipifere, from Virginia. These specimens show that 
tulipifere resembles such forms as tilie and esculi, and has nothing to 
do with lintneri. 
Most of the description was written by Mr. Bennett, a former student 
of mine. 
T. D. A. CockrrgE.t, N. M. Agr. Exp. Sta. 
A new Trombidian.’—The accompanying plate XXII shows a 
new North American trombidian which the writer found on the feath- 
ers of the black flycatcher (Phenopepla nitus Sev.) from Casa Grande, 
Arizona. By way of introduction some notes about this species may 
be outlined before the more detailed description is given, which is left 
till the last. This mite appeared on the surface of the plumage of two 
dried skins of the above bird, which had been laid away after separat- 
ing from the flesh, for a time enclosed in paper cylinders. This fact 
2 Read before the ene Section of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 
January 18th, 1895. 
