INSECUTOR INSCITI.^ MENSTRUUS 29 



Haplothrips halophilus, new species. 



Female (macropterous). — Length about 1.8 mm. Color 

 dark blackish brown, nearly black, with bright crimson hypo- 

 dermal pigmentation ; fore tarsi and middle of apical half 

 of fore tibiae, lemon yellow ; middle and hind tarsi blackish 

 brown ; antennse nearly concolorous with body, segment 3 

 yellowish brown, pale at base-. 



Head about 1.2 times as long as wide, sides evenly arcuate, 

 about as wide at posterior margin of eyes as at base ; vertex 

 distinctly produced, the anterior ocellus overhanging, attain- 

 ing frontal costa ; dorsal and lateral surfaces with close anas- 

 tomozing striae (very faint along median line) and a few 

 minute spines ; postocular bristles short, a little more than 

 half as long as eyes, pointed. Eyes nearly two-fifths as long 

 as head and about 0.8 as wide as their interval, nearly con- 

 tinuous in outline with cheeks. Ocelli anterior in position, 

 the posterior pair opposite anterior third of eyes. Antennse 

 about 1.6 times as long as head; segment 1 a little longer 

 than wide; 2 about 1.6 times as long as wide; 3 about 1.7 

 times as long as wide, sides gently rounded throughout, nar- 

 rowed evenly in basal half, the pedicel not at all abrupt but 

 bent slightly outward ; 4 swollen, longest and widest in entire 

 antenna, about 1.7 times as long as wide ; 5 nearly twice as long 

 as wide; 6 about 1.8 times as long as wide, broadest a little 

 before apex, pedicel only about half as wide as that of seg- 

 ment 7 ; 7 about twice as long as wide, sides almost straight 

 and parallel in apical three-fourths, pedicel with an abrupt, 

 shoulder-like widening at extreme base, at this place about 

 0.8 as wide as apex or equal in width to base of segment 8 ; 

 8 about two-thirds as long as 7 and a little more than twice as 

 long as wide ; sense cones : 3, 0-1 ; 4, 2-2 ; 5, 1-1+^ ; 6, 1+' ; 

 7 with one on dorsum near apex; segments 1 and 2 nearly 

 black, about concolorous with head, 2 paler at middle of apex ; 

 3 with pedicel yellow, remainder brown; 4 darker than 3, 

 yellowish brown at base ; 5 darker than 4, yellowish brown 

 at base ; 6-8 blackish brown, but paler than ^segments 1 and 2. 



Prothorax three-fourths as long as head and (inclusive of 



