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a trace of fulvous, rather obscure. Face and below creamy, a 

 pair of brown arcs on either side of the front between the antennal 

 sockets, attached to a brown cloud in the centre, forming a spider- 

 like marking on face. 



Genitalia: Female segment broad and short, almost parallel 

 margined with a slight median notch. 



Described from four females from St. Georgt, Utah, and 

 vicinit)' collected by the writer. This species, although still small 

 for the genus, is nearly twice as large as loculatns, to which it seems 

 to be allied. The white ground colour, with the black stars, render 

 it strikingh- distinct. 



A NEW P II Y S r II R I P S (THVS.\NOPTFRA) FROM 



UGANDA, WITH A NOTE ON PHYSOTIIRIPS 



A NTENNA TUS BAGN ALL. 



BY J. DOUGLAS HOOD, U. S. HIOLO(;iCAL SURVEY, WASHIN'CiTON, D. C. 



The new species here described from a unicjue female was 

 received from Dr. Henry J. Franklin, of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, and had been included with a number 

 of specimens of Physothrips antennatus, collected by Mr. C. C. 

 Gowdey at Kisube, Uganda. 



Physothrips antennatus, Bagnall. 



1914. — Physothrips antennatus Bagnall, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 8, Vol. XUI, p. 23. 



1914. — Physothrips antennatus Karn\-, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Ins.- 

 biol., Bd. X, p' 365. 



The brief original description of this species may be amplified 

 as follows: 



The median dorsal length of the head is about 0.7 the width 

 across eyes, and about three-fourths the length of the prothorax; 

 the cheeks are gently rounded, converging to base. The pronotum 

 is finely and dccph- striate, with a pair of nearly smooth, foveate 

 areas behind middle; hind margin with three pairs of bristles 

 between the two long pairs, the mediad pair larger; disk with 

 about 25 small bristles on each side. Mesonotum slightly more 

 closely transversely striate than the pronotum; metanotum sub- 



