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CHIROTHRIPS MANICATUS Haliday. 



Plate II, ligs. 14-16. 



Thrips {Chirotlmpi^) manicaUi Haliday, Entom. Mag., Ill, 1836, p. 444. 

 Thrij)s manlcata Bi-rmeistkr, Ilandb. d. Entomologie, II, 1838, p. 413. 

 Thrips longipennk 'BvKyiKiaTKU, Handb. d. Entomologie, II, 1838, j). 413. 

 C/wroi/iryw TOrtnicrtto Amyot and Serville, Ins. Hemipteres, 1843, p. 642. 

 Chirothrips longipennis Amyot and Serville, Ins. Hemipteres, 1843, p. 642. 

 Tliripi< {Chirothrips) manicata Haliday, Walker, Homopt. Ins. Brit. Mus., 1852, 



p. 1106, pi. VI, fig. 12. 

 Thripn {Chirothrips) manicata Reuter, Diagn. i'Av. nya Thysanopt. f. Finland, 



(1878-79), pp. 5,6. 

 Chirothrips antennatiis Osborn, Canad. Ent., XV, 1883, p. 154. 

 Chirothrips antennalus Lindeman, Bull. d. Soc. Imp. d. Nat. d. Moscow, LXII, 



1886, No. 4, pp. 322-325, fig. 12. 

 Chirothrijjs manicata J ABLONOWSKi, Termes. Fuzetek, XVII, 1894, p. 47. 

 Chirothrips manicata Uzel, Mon. d. Ord. Thysanoptera, 1895, p. 80, pi. i, fig. 2; 



pi. VI, fig. 49. 

 ( 'hirolJi rips manicata Tvmviu,, Die Geradfiigler Mittelenropas, 1901, p. 287. 



Female. — Length 1 mm. (0.84: to 1.18 mm,); width of mesothorax 

 0.27 mm. (0.24 to 0.?)2 mm.). General color quite uniform dark 

 3'ollo\vish brown. 



Head somewhat shorter than wide, almost conoid in shape, frequently 

 hidden up to the ej^es in the prothorax; cheeks only about one-third 

 the length of the e^^e; head prolonged into a triangular process in 

 front of the eyes; a row of four small .spines across the head between 

 the front edges of the eyes and one small spine on each side of the 

 anterior ocellus. Ej^es large, black, rather coarsely faceted; ocelli 

 subapproximate, almost white or pale yellowish with heavy maroon 

 cresceiitic inner margins, placed in a low triangle far back between 

 hind half of eyes. Mouth cone short, broad and blunt; maxillary 

 palpi three segmented. Antennas less than twice the length of head; 

 segments thick and more or less rounded; relative lengths of segments 

 as follows: 



Basal segments very broad and almost contiguous; two drawn out 

 into a short, blunt angle on outer side; three and four bear each one 

 very stout, blunt sense cone on outer angle. All segments brown; 

 tips of two and three frequently yellowish. 



Prothorax large, trapezoidal, a little less than twice as long as head, 

 as wide as head in front and twice as wide l^ehind; sides nearly 

 straight; surface dotted with numerous very small spines and marked 

 with transverse, arched wrinkles, giving it a scaly appearance; numer- 

 'ous small spines stand at hind edge, and two spines at each hind angle 

 ar(> nnich larger than the others. Mesothorax a little broader than 



