New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 171 
was due to a different fungus, and that the Fusarium was a con- 
tamination which developed during the transit of the specimens.” 
“A MITE ACCOMPANYING THE BUD-ROT OF CARNATIONS, 
BY ROBERT H. WOLCOTT.’ 4? 
This chapter of Nebraska bulletin No. 103 contains a brief dis- 
cussion of the life history and the description of a mite which 
Dr. Wolcott says “may appropriately be designated as Pedicu- 
loides dianthophilus.” 
The life history as given on p. 26 agrees quite well with that 
of the mites infesting carnation buds in New York State and II- 
linois and those in the buds received from Lincoln, Nebraska. The 
description and figures of Pediculoides dianthophilus, however, are 
somewhat misleading. This is particularly true of the figure of 
the male although the position of the hairs on the dorsum of the 
female is not correct. The first or lateral pair of hairs situated 
just behind the transverse constriction is not figured. The three 
pairs of median hairs figured in the plate are too near the lateral 
margins. 
The description and figure of the male are entirely wrong, and 
it would appear that the figure of the male has been reversed thus 
giving one the impression that the knot-like head with its fringe 
of hairs is a part of the genitalia, while the other end of the body 
is provided with a head and mandibles similar to those of the fe- 
male. Aside from these points of difference the structural char- 
acters of the cephalo-thorax of the male and female resemble each 
other so closely that it would appear to be impossible to mistake 
which is the cephalic end of the body, even if one were not ac: 
quainted with the usual structure of male genitalia. The copula- 
tory organ of the male is typical of the family to which the species 
belongs. 
There is no question as to the correctness of the above obser- 
vations as the male specimens from which my illustrations were 
made were obtained from carnation buds sent me by Professor 
Heald as the species upon which he and Dr. Wolcott were work- 
ing at the time. 
spy Hk Hodgkiss. 
