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References. 



(1) Moulton, Dudley, U.S.D.A. Bur. Ent. Tech. Ser. No. 21, p. 34, 1911. 



(2) Moulton, Dudley, U.S.D.A. Tech. Ser. No. 12, Pt. 3, 1907. 



(3) Williams, C. B. The Entomologist, Vol. 49, p. (277) 13, 1916. 



(4) Williams, C.B. Annals of Applied Biology, Vol. 1, p. 240, 1915. 



(5) Hood, J. D. Proceedings Biological Society Washington, Vol. 29, p. 109, 



1916. 



(6) Hood, J. D. Insecutor Inscitiaj Menstruus, Vol. 5, p. 55, 1917. 



(7) Foster, S.W., & Jones, P.R. U.S.D.A. Bur. Ent., Bull. 173. p. 5, 6, 1915. 



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1917. 



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of Applied Entomology, Vol. 2, p. 536, 1914). 



Explanation of Plates. 



r PLATE XV. 



Fig. 1. Orothrips kelloggii yosemitii, maxillary palpi. 



Fig. 2. Orothrips kelloggii yosemitii, labial palpi. 



Fig. 3. Orothrips kelloggii yosemitii, right antenna. 



Fig. 4. jEolothrips fasciatus, male. 



Fig. 5. yEolothrips annectans, right wing. 



Fig. 6. ^olothrips auricestus, n. sp., maxillary and labial palpi. 



Fig. 7. Molothrips auricestus, n. sp., left antenna. 



PLATE XVI. 



1. Brachypterous female of Molothrips auricestus, n. sp. (drawn and 

 painted under author's instruction, by Mr. C. W. Young, x\gassiz, B.C.). 



2. Macropterous female of JEolothrips annectans Hood, (drawn and painted 

 under author's instruction, by Mr. C. W. Young, Agassiz, B.C.). 



PLATE XVII. 



Variations in alar armature of fore-wing of TcBniothrips inconsequens 

 (diagrammatic, author's illlistration). 



APPOINTMENTS— CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL BRANCH. 



Mr. Leonard S. McLaine, M.Sc, of the Canadian Entomological Branch, 

 has been transferred from the Dominion Entomological Laboratory, Fredericton, 

 N.B., to Ottawa, and has been appointed Chief of the Division of Plant In- 

 spection and Executive Assistant to the Dominion Entomologist. As Chief 

 of the Division of Plant Inspection, Mr. McLaine will have immediate charge 

 of the work of inspection and fumigating impoited nursery stock, and of the 

 field work against the Brown-tail Moth in Eastern Canada, and such other 

 duties as the enforcement of the insects and pests regulations under the De- 

 structive Insect and Pest Act may involve. 



Mr. M.. B. Dunn, Temporary Assistant at the Dominion Entomological 

 Laboratory at Fredericton, N.B., has been appointed an Entomological Assistant 

 in the Division of Forest Insects of the Entomolpgical Branch, Ottawa, and 

 under the direction of Dr. J. M. Swaine he wiU be assigned to sample plot in- 

 vestigations in the forests of Quebec and Ontario. 



