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and bearing a few minute spines. Eyes medium, black, with light bor- 

 ders rounded or oval in outline, coarsely faceted, hairy. Ocelli yellow, 

 margined inwardly with reddish brown crescents, widely separated, pos- 

 terior ones contiguous, with light borders around eyes ; one very long 

 slender spine on each side midway between ocelli. Mouth cone pointed, 

 tipped with black ; maxillary palpi 3-segmented. Antennae 8-segmented, 

 approximate, slightly over twice the length of head. Length of segments: 

 33, 43, 55, 5 2 > 35, 5- 8 > IO - Antennae brown, except segment three 

 which is yellow. Spines pale, conspicuous, special sense organs on seg- 

 ments three and four. 



Prothorax longer and wider than head ; bears many prominent spines, 

 the one at each anterior angle, and the two at each posterior angle are 

 longest. Color, yellow-brown ; faintly cross-striated. 



Mesothorax approximately as wide as antennae are long ; front angles 

 obtusely rounded ; metanotal plate bears four spines close to front edge, 

 middle pair equal in size and prominence to those at the angles of pro- 

 thorax, the others are small ; pterothorax yellow-brown, transversely 

 wrinkled. 



Wings present, extending slightly beyond abdomen, about twelve 

 times as long as wide, pointed at ends ; surface of wings thickly covered 

 with minute brown spines ; both longitudinal veins and costa of fore- 

 wings thic,kly set with quite long, brown-colored spines, placed regularly 

 on costa and hind vein ; costa has from 29-33 spines, fore-vein 12-15, and 

 hind vein 15-16 ; veins not prominent ; costal fringe of fore wings about 

 twice as long as costal spines. 



Legs moderately long, scarcely thickened ; femora and all except the 

 terminal part of tibia brown ; terminal part and tibiae and tarsi yellow, a 

 double row of twelve strong spines on the inner side of hind tibia, several 

 inconspicuous spines on fore and middle pairs. 



Abdomen about two and one-half times as long as width of mesothorax, 

 cylindrical to eighth segment, then abruptly pointed. Spines on sides 

 and around tip of abdomen dark brown, conspicuous ; those on last two 

 segments are long and approximately equal. Color of abdomen dark 

 brown, connective tissue yellow. 



Found on pear blossoms, San Leaudro. 



Sericothrips apteris nov. sp. 



Female. Length 0.745 mm. (0.65-0.84 mm.), width 0.34 mm.. Gen- 

 eral color very dark brown, nearly black. 



Head 0.39 mm. long, 0.289 mm. wide, broadest just under the eyes re- 

 tracted slightly into prothorax, cheeks convex, converging very slightly 

 posteriorly, anterior margin slightly depressed at the insertion of the an- 

 tennu*. Spines upon the head inconspicuous, a few small ones upon the 

 cheeks. Head dark brown, nearly black. Eyes moderately lar.>;e, dark, 

 cornea appears as a light colored margin about the eye ; coarsely faceted. 



