ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XXIV. 



APRIL, 1913- 



No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Watson New Thysanoptera from Flo- 

 rida M5 



Bethune-Baker Everes comyntas and 

 amyntula (Lep.) 149 



Girault Fragments from an Entomo- 

 logical Diary, Texas, 1904. Ap- 

 pearance of Insects in Spring 156 



Hilton Change in Title 159 



Rust New Peruvian Parasites from 

 Hemichionaspis minor I Hymen.) .. 160 



Monograph of Aleocharinae (Coleop.) 165 



Girault A New Signiphora from 

 Queensland, Australia (Hym.) 166 



Manee Observations on Buprestidae 

 at Southern Pines, North Carolina 

 (Coleop. ) 167 



Rilev Some Sources of Laboratory 

 Material for Work on the Relation 

 of Insects to Disease 172 



Felt Cystodiplosis eugeniae n. sp. 



(Dipt.) 175 



Alexander A New Species of Dixa 



from Chile (Dixidae, Dipt.) 176 



Editorial - i?3 



The British Imperial Bureau of Ento- 

 mology 179 



An Entomologist Wanted for Arcadia iSo 

 Entomological Meet in California, 1915 181 

 Dow Some Nomenclatural Questions 181 

 Grinnell Recollections of A. R. Grote, 



by John G. Milburn 182 



Entomological Literature 183 



Review of Cosens A Contribution to 

 the Morphology and Biology of 



Insect Galls 187 



Doings of Societies 189 



Obituary Charles W. Hooker, Ph.D. 192 



New Thysanoptera from Florida. 



By J. R. WATSON, University of Florida Exper. Sta., Gaines- 

 ville, Fla. 



(Plate VI) 



Cryptothrips floridensis, new species. (Plate VI, Figs. 1-4.") 



Measurements : Head, length 0.25 mm., width 0.20 mm. ; prothorax, 

 length 0.17 mm., width 0.34 mm.; mesothorax, width 0.40 mm.; abdo- 

 men, width 0.44 mm. ; total length of insect, exclusive of antennae, 

 1.89 mm.; tube, length 0.14 mm., width at base 0.075 mm.; antennae; 

 1,36 P ; 2, 51.7 n \ 3, 77.6 p ; 4, 78 /* ; 5, 65 !'- ; 6, 63 ," ; 7, 54.5 /* I 8, 

 40 p ; total 0.42 mm. 



General color, black, no purple pigment; tarsi dark brown and 

 antennae yellow. 



Head, cylindrical, one and one- fourth times as long as wide; sides 

 almost straight and parallel. 



Eyes somewhat triangular, 9x6 P-, reddish brown, not pilose, about 

 250 facets. 



Ocelli present, concolorous with the eyes to which the posterior 

 ones are closely applied. 



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