XXxii, '21] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 143 



Phytophaga floridensis n. sp. 



The one specimen described below was collected at St. Au- 

 gustine, Florida, April 16, 1919, by ProlY^or C. \V. Johnson. 

 It runs in our key to P. thalictri I'Ylt, from which it is nio-i 

 easily separated by the distinctly longer antennal segments. 

 A comparison of the two insects shows that they are entirely 

 different. Type Cecicl. 1801, in the New York State Museum. 



$. Length, 1.5 mm. Antennae as long as the body, rather thickly 

 haired, 14 segments, the 5th with a stem one-half the length of the 

 cylindrical basal enlargement, which latter has a length two and one- 

 half times its diameter. Terminal segment produced, with a length 

 over four times its diameter. Palpi, first segment with a length about 

 three times its diameter, the second a little longer, the third one-half 

 longer than the second and the fourth nearly twice the length of the 

 third. 



Mesonotum dark yellowish brown, the submedian lines impressed, 

 yellowish, scutellum yellowish, postscutellum a little darker, abdomen 

 yellowish. 



Wings hyaline, the third vein uniting with the margin well beyond 

 the apex of the wing. Halteres pale yellowish. 



Coxae yellowish, legs mostly dark straw. Claws long, slender, rather 

 strongly curved, simple, the pulvilli a little shorter than the claws. 



Genitalia; basal clasp segment short, stout, broad, terminal clasp 

 segment rather short, stout. Dorsal plate broad, broadly and roundly 

 emarginate, the lobes broadly rounded and thickly setose. Ventral plate 

 rather long, narrow, deeply and almost triangularly emarginate, the 

 lobes broad, broadly rounded apically and rather thickly setose. 



PREVENT FOREST FIRES IT PAYS! 



EDITOR, ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS As a newspaper man you know with- 

 out any telling what is the paper situation. Substantially every other 

 industry using wood in any of its forms is in the same kind of trouble, 

 or very soon will be. 



In Pennsylvania the root of the whole trouble has been and still is 

 the unmitigated curse of forest fire. Fire has destroyed more grow- 

 ing and prospective timber than all land clearing and cutting put to- 

 gether. Forest fires keep down production. Kvcry acre of soil not 

 needed for purposes more important should be growing trees. To do 

 so they must lie made secure against fire. 



Because of the open winter and early spring the present fire season 

 threatens to be one of the worst in years. 1 -should appreciate it uivatly 

 if you would help by carrying, durinir May ami June, the slogan of 

 the Department of Forestry, which i*-. "I'n-veiit ' Fires It P 



Your co-operation will ' special!} iiM-fnl in making the idea ot 

 forest protection a part of the every dav thought and eon-, 

 our people GIFKOKP PIXCMOT, Commissioner of Forestry, St.ih- <<! 

 Pennsylvania. 



