96 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Coimbatore, India, March 14, 1916, T. V. Ramakrishna 

 Aiyar ; 10 females, 5 males, on grapevine leaves. 



Coimbatore, India, March 15, 1916, T. V. Ramakrishna 

 Aiyar ; 4 females, 3 males, on grapevine leaves. 



Peradeniya, Ceylon, February, 1917, A. Rutherford; 1 fe- 

 male, on leaves of Careya arbor ea (C. B. Williams' collection. 

 No. 1003). 



Closely allied to the two described species of the genus, but 

 easily known from them by the secondary sexual characters of 

 the male, the form of the prothorax, and the coloration. 



Neoheegeria indica, new species. (PI. Ill, figs. 1 and 3.) 



Female {macro pterous). — Length about 1.3 mm. Color 

 dark blackish brown, with all tarsi, apical three-fourths of fore 

 tibiae, and tips of middle and hind tibiae light lemon yellow ; 

 antennae with apex of segment 3, all of segments 3-6, and 

 basal two-thirds of segment 7, light lemon yellow, the re- 

 mainder brown. 



Head about L3 times as long as wide, broadest at posterior 

 third, with sides slightly arcuate, and somewhat wider at 

 posterior margin of eyes than at base, which is slightly con- 

 stricted ; vertex slightly produced over base of antennae, the 

 anterior ocellus barely overhanging and nearly attaining 

 frontal costa ; dorsal and lateral surfaces with faint anasto- 

 mosing striae and a few very minute spines ; postocular bristles 

 slender, dilated at tip, and about three-fourths as long as eyes. 

 Eyes about one-third as long as head, not at all protruding, 

 about equal in width to their interval, and of equal extent on 

 dorsal and ventral surfaces. Ocelli anterior in position, the 

 posterior pair opposite a line drawn behind anterior third of 

 eyes. Antennae (PI. Ill, fig. 3) about 1.6 times as long as 

 head, formed as in Haplothrips ; sense cones short and incon- 

 spicuous ; formula: 3, 1-1 ; 4, 3-3; 5, 1-1+'; 6, 1-1+', 7 with 

 one on dorsum near apex. Mouth cone acute and constricted 

 at apex, attaining posterior margin of presternum. 



Prothorax along median dorsal line about 0.8 as, long as 

 head and (inclusive of coxae) about 1.0 times as wide as long. 



