1104 LIST OF HOMOPTERODS INSECTS. 



AnteuuEe apicula Subgenus. 



connata 1, Aptinothrips. 



discreta: Proiliorax antice 



valde angustatus 3. Chirothrips. 



parum angustatus: 



Abdomen dorso 



efoveolatum 2. Limothrips. 



seriatim foveolatum : 



Antennae apicula prorations articu- 

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brevis 4. Thrips. 



elongata 5. Belothrips. 



Subgenus 1. APTINOTHRIPS. 

 Aptinothrips, Hal. Eni.Mag. iii,445. 



Antennae articulo 6to lon<riore apice attenuato-exannulato : 

 ocelli nulli : corpus lineare glabrum, abdominis dorso efoveolato : 

 alarum ne minimo quidem vestigio. 



1. Aptinothrips rufa. 



Thrips Apt. rufa, Hal Ent. Mag. iii. 446, 4. 



Thrips rufa, {Gleicheji, Neuestes im Reich der Pflanz. pi. 16, f. 6, 7). 

 Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 4, 2224, 10. 



Ferruginea, oculis et rostri apice fuscis fcem. : pallide flava, 

 abdoinine glandulis geminis croceis perlucentibus, segmento penul- 

 timo ante apicera medium bispinoso mas. Long./cern. f — ^ lin. 



Hah. In gramine et cerealibus. 



a. England. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



"My brief description o^ Aptinothrips rufa, \x\(\.\\ceA Burmeister 

 to set it down as a larva without doubt: but rashly, for the exarticu- 

 late apex of the antennae is no indication of this state, as he seems to 

 infer. It is a perfect insect with compound eyes, smooth coriaceous 

 integuments, connected segments of pterothorax and prominent 



