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greatest width very nearly equal that of the head. Fore tarsus 

 with a very stout tooth. AU femora dark brown, except extreme 

 bases and tips of middle femora and extreme tips of hind femora 

 which are yellowish brown. Hind and middle tibse dark brown 

 along sides, Ught brown at tips, infuscate along center. Fore tibisD 

 yellowish brown. All tarsi Hght yellowish brown with a black spot 

 at the tip witliin. All femora and tibiae clothed with numerous 

 minute spines. In winged specimens the wings are short and broad, 

 reaching only about to the sixth abdominal segment. Wings gray. 

 Three almost transparent stout spines with dilated tips on vestigial 

 basal portion of vein in fore wing. Hind wing gray with a slight 

 median thickening visible for about one-tliird the length of the wing. 

 Both fringes of both mngs thick, slender, and long. Hind fringe of 

 fore wing near tip double for about 17 hairs. 



Abdomen broad and heavy, second to seventh segments of about 

 equal widths, eighth and ninth segments tapering suddenly to the 

 tube. Tube about two-thirds as long as the head. Dorsum of iu'st 

 segment and a band across anterior margin of second segment fuiely 

 areolate. Third segment weakly cross striate on anterior portion. 

 AU prominent spines on body pale and with dilated tips, except the 

 two ventral spines at the tip of the ninth segment which are blunt, 

 and the six slender spines at the tip of the tube which are sharp 

 pointed and brown. Spines at tip of tube slightly longer than the 

 tube. 



Type shde contains two females, one wingless and one winged, and 

 three pupae and one larva. 



Swan River, Austraha, received at the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, March 1, 1902, 



Collected under dead scales of Eriococcus on Eucalyptus. 



Collector, George Compere. 



Type.— Csit. No. 15737, U.S.N.M. 



LEPTOTHRIPS ASPERSUS Hinds. 



I have in my collection one slide of this species initialed by 

 Moulton— therefore, presumably determined by Inm — and one sUde 

 of Cryptothrips californicus Daniel, also initialed by Moulton. A 

 careful comparison of these slides with my slides of Leptotlirips 

 aspersus Hinds, which have been compared with Hinds' cotypes m 

 the collection of the U. S. National Museum, show no specific differ- 

 ences. Therefore, Cryptothrips californicus Daniel becomes a syn- 

 onym of Leptotlirips aspersus Hinds. Mr. J. D. Hood ^ has already 

 placed Cryptothrips californicus in Leptotlirips, and has called atten- 

 tion to the identity of Liothrips mcconnelli Crawford with Lepto- 

 thrips aspersus. The distribution of L. aspersus is extended^ there- 

 fore, to Mexico. 



" Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 25, April 13, 1912, pp. 61-62. 



