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Type in the collection of the Florida Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. Cotypes sent to the U. S. National Museum. 



Close to C. calif ornicus Daniel, from which it differs chiefly 

 in general color, color of the legs, color and length of the seg- 

 ments in part of the antennae and in its habitat. 



Phloeothrips floridensis, new species. (Plate VI, Figs. 5, 6 and 7.) 



Female. Total length 2.5 mm. Head 0.26 mm. long and 0.2 mm. 

 wide; prothorax 0.2 mm. long and 0.38 mm. wide; mesothorax 0.18 

 mm. long by 0.395 m m- wide; metathorax 0.23 mm. long and same 

 width as the mesothorax; abdomen about the width of the thorax; 

 tube 0.16 mm. long and 0.05 mm. wide at its base; antennae, total 

 length 0.46 mm., segments, i, 30.2x41.5 /. ; 2, 52.8x30.2 ft; 3, 71. 7 x 

 37-7 /* ; 4, 83x36 ^ ; 5, 75.5x28 t*. ; 6, 64x23 V ; 7, 56.6x21 /* ; 8, 26.4x13 P-. 



General color, dark brown under the lens, black to the naked eye. 



Head, rounded in front, sides slightly converging posteriorly, the 

 warts small and completely covering the surface, spines short. 



Eyes, size 0.1x0.05 mm., oval in shape. 



Ocelli large, placed well forward, posterior ones barely touching 

 margins of the eyes. 



Mouth-cone comparatively short, reaching only about two-thirds of 

 the distance across the prothorax. 



Antennae with eight segments, total length 0.46 mm. Basal two 

 segments dark brown, concolorous with the head, third yellow but a 

 little darker at the apex, fourth, fifth and sixth have the basal third 

 yellow and the remainder light yellowish-brown, as are all of the 

 seventh and eighth. Spines and sense-cones long and stout. 



Prothorax 0.2 mm. long, 0.38 mm. wide, narrow in front, three long 

 knobbed spines on each lateral margin. 



Mesothorax and metathorax sides converging slightly posteriorly, 

 each bearing a number of knobbed hairs. 



Legs rather long, femora concolorous with the body, tibiae and 

 tarsi yellowish brown, fore tarsi with a strong claw. 



Wings. Fore wings rather short, barely reaching the sixth abdom- 

 inal segment, fringed with hairs whose length is greater than the 

 width of the abdomen. Hind wings a little shorter and with shorter 

 hairs. 



Abdomen long and narrow, first six segments of nearly equal width. 

 Tube, sides converging only slightly posteriorly. 



Male. Total length 1.36 mm. Head 0.24 mm. long and 0.19 mm. 

 wide. 



Antennae; joint 4, 70^ long; 5, 63 M ; 8, 30^. 



Front femora thicker and lighter in color than in the female and 

 with a short, thick spine on the inner distal corner. 



