128 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv 



jEolothrips {Coleotlmj)s) fasciaUt Haliday, Walker, Homopt. Ins. of Brit. Miis., 



Pt. 4, 1852, p. 1117, pi. VII, figs. 31-42. 

 yEolothrlps fasdala Heeger, Sitzungsb. d. Acad. d. Wiss. Wien, VIII, 1852, 



pp. 135-136, pi. XXI. 

 (MeothripstrifanclataFncn, Count. Gent., VI, Dec. 1855, p. 385. 

 Coleothrips trifaaciata Fitch, Second Kept. Nox. Ins. N. Y. 1857, p. 308 (or 540). 

 ThripsfasciataDEMA^N, Tijdschr. v. Entomol., 1871, p. 147. 

 J'Mlothrips {Coleothrips) fasciata, Reutek, Diagnoser ofver nya Thysanop. fran 



Finl., 1879, p. 7, or iofv. Fin. Soc, XXI, 1879, p. 214. 

 Coleothrips fasciata Pergande, Entomologist, April, 1882, p. 95. 

 Coleothrips trifasciata Webster, Kept. Dept. Agr., 1886, p. 577. 

 Coleothrips trifasdata Thaxter, Eept. Conn. Agr. Exp. Sta. for 1889, (1889), p. 180. 

 Coleothrij)s 3-fasdata Riley-Howard, Ins. Life, III, 1891, p. 301. 

 Coleothrips trifasdata Tow-niHEJiT), Canad. Ent., XXIV, 1892, p. 197. 

 Coleothrips trifasdata Gillette, Bull. 24, Col. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1893, p. 15. 

 Coleothrips trifasdata Davis, Bull. 102, Mich. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1893, p. 39, fig. 10. 

 Coleothrips trifasdata Cockerels, Bull. 15, X. Mex. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1895, p. 71, 

 JEolothrips fasdata Uzel, Monographie d. Ord. Thysanop., 1895, p. 72, pi. i, 



fig. 4; pi. V, figs. 46-48. 

 Coleothrips trifasdata Davis, Special Bull. No. 2, Mich. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1896, 



p. 13, fig. 4. 

 JEolothrips fasdata TIimpel, Die Geradfliigler Mitteleuropas, 1901, p. 286, pi. 



XXIII. 



Female. — Length, 1.63 miii. (1.3G to 1.76 mm.); width of mesotho- 

 rax, 0.30 mm. (0.27 to 0.31 mm.). General collor yellowish brown to 

 dark brown'. Head slightly wider than long, rectangular in outline, 

 retracted slightly within prothorax; cheeks arched but slightly behind 

 eyes; front nearly straight; surface of head but faintly striated and 

 bearing numerous minute spines. Eyes large, black, elongated down- 

 ward; borders of eyes light; ocelli small, well separated, orange- 

 yellow with maroon crescents. Mouth cone sharpl}^ pointed; maxil- 

 lary palpi geniculate, three segmented; labial palpi four segmented; 

 chitinous thickening extending from left e^-e connected with that at 

 juncture of mouth cone with frons; just a trace of such thickening 

 extends down from right eye; the two spines standing at base of 

 frons close to transverse thickening are less than twice as long as sub- 

 antennal pair of spines. Antennas nine segmented, nearly three 

 times as long as head and very slender, approximate at base; relative 

 lengths of segments: 



-1 A A A A ^"^ ^^ 

 5.5 15 31 26 17 17 



Segment one thickest, cylindrical; two is a little thicker than three; 

 last five segments are closely joined and from base of six they taper 

 gradually to the tip. Antenna brown except tip of two and all but 

 extreme tip of three nearly white; all segments quite thickly and 

 uniformly clothed with short spines; those around tip of two })oing 

 much the stoutest; no sense cones present, but both three and four 



