62 Hood — New Genera and Species of N. A. Thysanoptera. 



whatever between a cotype of mcconnelli received from Mr. 

 Crawford and two of Dr. Hinds' cotypes of Cryptothrips asper- 

 sus* — the type of the genus — in the collection of the United 

 States National Museum. 



Liothrips baheri Crawford belongs in or near Mesothrips Zim- 

 mermann.f 



jflolothrips vespiformis Crawford has been properly made the 

 type of a new genus, — Franklinothrips Back.'! 



Anthothrips variabilis Crawford (of which I have ten cotypes) 

 is identical with the type of A. gowdeyi Franklin § in the collec- 

 tion of the United States National Museum ; the species should 

 be known as Haplothrips gowdeyi (Franklin). It is interesting 

 to compare Dr. Franklin's figure of the head and prothorax 

 (PL LXIII, fig. 8) with that given by Crawford (Pom. Coll. 

 Journ. Ent., Vol. II, p. 166, A). 



Idolothrips angusticeps Crawford was compared at the time of 

 its description with Megalothri.ps (?) spinosus Hood, II to which it 

 is only distantly related (being placed in a different family by 

 Bagnall! ), the existence of four North American congeners11 

 and five Central and South American ones** having been either 

 overlooked or ignored by its describer. It is almost certainly 

 synonymous with one of these. 



Thrips abdominalfe Crawford has been since redescribed under 

 the name Thrips femoralis by P. R. Jones, tt of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, notwithstanding the fact (as I have been reminded 

 by Mr. H. M. Russell) that the latter name was used by 

 Blanchard in 1851 for a species from Chile. XX 



The collection upon which are based the new generic and 

 specific names herein proposed was made four years ago in 

 southern Texas and northern Mexico by Mr. Charles A. Hart, 

 Systematic Entomologist of the Illinois State Laboratory of 

 Natural History. Many hundreds of specimens were taken, all 



* Proc. C. S. Nat. Mas.. Vol. XXVI. p. 205; 1902. 



t Hull, de l'lnstitut Botanique de Buitenzorg, No. VII, p. 12; 1900. 



t Ent. News. Vol. XXIII, p. 7:;; Feb., 1912. 



§Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXIII. p. 724; March I, 1908. 



t| Can. Ent., Vol. XL, p. 306; Sep., 1908. 



IT Coniferarum Pergande, and flavipes, armatus, and tuberculatum, Hood. 



** Schotti Heeger, and longiceps, assimilis, affinis, and joveicollis, Bagnall; the last 

 mentioned has been recently removed by Bagnall to the genus Dicaiothrips Buffa and 

 separated into two species, Joveicollis and chatnpioni. 



++ U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 23, Pt. I, p. 4 ; Jan. 26, 1912. 



tl Historia fisica y politica de Chile, Zool., Tomo VI, p. 150. 



