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within, mucli smaller, however, than in the male ; no conspicuous spines on fore- 

 legs ; femora, meso- and posterior tibire concolorons with body, foretibire and 

 all tarsi light brown. 



Abdomen long and slender, equally broad from base to fifth segment, and 

 from there tapering evenly to ninth, which is broadly rounded at the tip; 

 abdominal spines on segments one to seven knobbed : tube slightly more than 

 half as long as head, with several small spines on dorsal surface ; four long 

 spines on posterior dorsal margin of ninth segment, and four extremely long 

 spines at tip of tube, and several shorter ones. 



Figure 66. Phloeothrips raptor 



Measurements: Head, length .27 mm., width .18 mm.; prothora.x. length 

 .16 mm., width .35 mm. ; pterothorax, width .36 mm. ; abdomen, width .32 mm. ; 

 tube, length .15 mm., width, at base .06 mm., at tip .04 mm.; total length 2.09 

 mm. Antennae : I, .030 mm. ; II, .044 mm. ; III, .065 mm. ; IV, .081 mm. : 

 V, .069 mm. ; VI, .052 mm. ; VII, .049 mm. ; VIII, .026 mm. ; total length .41 

 mm. 



Males fully as large as female, and more powerful ; similar in every re- 



