18 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Antennal segments 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 



Length (n) 39 60 88 80 57 66 14 17 



Width (\i) 42 31 28 25 20 21 9 7 



Total length of antenna, 0.421 mm. 

 Described from one female collected by Mr. James Zetek at 

 Bouquete, Panama, in February, 1914, from the "flowers of a 

 common shrub, with large white flowers resembling those of 

 trumpet creeper." 



Closely allied to Frankliniella insularis and F. auripes, but 

 separable by the larger size, the enormous bristles, and the 

 coloration of the legs. 



Frankliniella auripes, new species. 



Female (macropterous). — Length about 1.4 mm. Color dark 

 blackish brown, nearly black, with all tibiae and tarsi and inner 

 surface of fore femora, clear lemon yellow ; segment 3 of 

 antennas, most of 4 and base of 5, yellowish ; fore wings clear 

 in basal third, brownish gray beyond, becoming paler toward 

 apex. 



Head about 1.2 times as wide as long, much narrowed be- 

 hind ; occiput with about three quite distinct, transverse, chiti- 

 nous, anastomozing lines and several fainter ones in front of 

 them ; interocellar bristles moderately large, two-thirds as long 

 as eye, a large postocular pair 0.8 as long. Eyes about 0.6 as 

 long as head, about three-fourths as wide as their interval. 

 Ocelli of posterior pair widely separated, distinctly behind 

 middle of eyes, equal in size to anterior ocellus. Antennae 

 about two and one-fourth times as long as head ; segments 1 

 and 2 dark blackish brown, 2 slightly paler at apex ; 3 yellow, 

 sometimes slightly inf uscate apically ; 4 and 5 grayish yellow in 

 basal two-thirds and half, respectively, remainder of antenna 

 brownish gray ; segment 1 about as long as wide ; 2 three-fifths 

 as wide as long; 3 narrowed in apical fourth, three times as 

 long as wide ; 4 slightly shorter, nearly three times as long as 

 wide ; 5 three-fourths as long, and about 2.5 times as long as 

 wide, truncate and slightly narrowed at apex, where it is about 

 as wide as 4; 6 slightly shorter than 3 and 4, less than three 



