I0 6 ENTOMOLOGICAL, NEWS. [Mar., 'l6 



Anasa armigera Say. Boston, Massachusetts, 24 Sept., 1914; 

 13 Oct., 1915 (Parshley). 



I believe that these are the first New England records for 

 this species. The two specimens were taken at almost the 

 same spot in two successive years. The individual captured in 

 1914 differs in some details from typical western specimens in 

 my collection, but the other is so distinctly intermediate as to 

 forbid even racial separation from typical armigera. 



PENTATOMIUAE. 



Zicrona caerulea Linn. Newbury Neck (near Surrey), Maine, 

 22-24 June, 1904 (F. A. Eddy). 



This cosmopolite is widely distributed in the West, but there 

 is only one other record of its occurrence in New England. 

 (Mt. Washington, New Hampshire)! I have compared the 

 specimen with others in my collection from the Caucasus and 

 Java and note but slight differences apart from size. 



A New Species of Heterothrips (Thysanoptera) from 

 Eastern United States. 



By J. DOUGLAS HOOD, U. S. Biological Survey, Washington, 



D. C. 



Heterothrips vitis sp. nov. 



1913 Heterothrips arisaemae Morgan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 

 46, p. 44. (Appomatox, Virginia; on wild grape). (A misidentification, 

 nee Hood, 1908). 



Female (macroptcrous). Length about i mm. Color dark blackish 

 brown, with tarsi and distal ends of all tibiae very pale yellow ; basal 

 portions of antennal segments 3 and 4 more or less yellowish, the re- 

 mainder of antenna grayish brown. 



Head about 1.6 times as long as median dorsal length and about 0.7 

 as long as prothorax, widest near base, cheeks tapering roundly an- 

 teriorly; surface closely transversely striate and with a few minute 

 spines, impressed in the region of the anterior ocellus; frontal costa 

 with deep, U-shaped emargination ; ocellar area not delimited by chiti- 

 nous lines. Eyes setose, about two-thirds as long as head, slightly 

 wider than their dorsal interval, not bounded behind by a chitinous line. 

 Ocelli of posterior pair twice the diameter of anterior ocellus, about 

 half as wide as their interval. Antennae about 2.8 times as long as 

 head ; segment 3 more or less conical and about 2.8 times as long as 



