200 rROCEEDimiS of the national museum. vol. XXVI. 



roundish, lio-ht vellowish spot on side of dark area; middle and hind 

 tibia' pah' veUowish at base and tip, banded with dark brown around 

 thf inid(Ue, these tarsi pak^ yellow, lu-own at tips; surface of all legs 

 rou^'h. })einu- thickly set with minute warts, each bearing a small 

 spine. 



Abdomen a))out two-thirds the length of the Ixxly, tapering gradu- 

 ally from second segment to tip; width at second segment but slightly 

 less than that of niesothorax. Tube slightly more than three -fourths 

 as h)ng as head; diameter at middle of tu})e about one-sixth that at 

 middle of abdomen. Sides of metathorax and surface of a))domen, up 

 to about the seyenth or eighth segment, peculiarly roughened with 

 closely set small warts, many of which bear small spines. The tube 

 is nearly cylindrical, without a scale at its base, and at the tip bears a 

 circlet of eight extremely long, slender, acute hairs, which are nearly 

 three times as long as tu})e. The basal third of tu})e is yery pale yel- 

 lowish white; the outer two-thirds is abruptly })rown-l)lack; segments 

 eight and nine pale yellow; three to seyen appear irregularly striped 

 with pale yellow and dark ])rown; dorsal stripe pale yellow and about 

 the width of the wings; a subdorsal row of dark-brown, semicircular 

 spots, which stand one in the middle on each side of these segments 

 with the straight side toward the dorsal line, giyes the appearance of 

 a subdorsal stripe; then follows on each side an irregular, pale yellow 

 stripe, and the middle of the sides of the segments is shaded with 

 brown. Spines on sides of a))dominal segments and the back of eighth 

 and ninth are extremely short and l)lunt. 



Described from one specimen. 



Female unknown. 



VooiJ plant. — % 



II(ih!t((t. — Miami, Florida. 



MALACOTHRIPS, new genus. 



Head plainly longer than wide and narrowed in front. Cheeks full 

 and with spine-])earing warts; yertex eleyated. Antemuv nearly twice 

 as long as head. Mouth cone as long as its breadth at base, reaching 

 the hind edge of the prosternum; labrum quite sharply pointed at tip. 

 Prothorax two-thirds as long as head. Pterothorax somewhat con- 

 stricted in middle. Fore tarsi with a tiny tooth. Wings usually 

 reduced to pads. Abdomen large and full in the female. A closely 

 lying scale at ))ase of tul)e in the male. 



This geiuis contains only one species, Ccoitafiis. 



{iKuXaKog, soft: ^pif.) 



MALACOTHRIPS ZONATUS, new species. 

 IMate IX, fifrs. 95-98. 



Fri„ah:—\jox\aih !.<)!> mm. (1.50 to l.OS nun.); width of pterothorax 

 0.:>.() nun. ((>.L>T to {).?A nun.). (Jeneral coloi- pale bi-ight yellow on 



