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Genus Ankothrips Crawford 

 A. robustus Crawford (Pomona Journ. Ent., Vol. 1. No. 4, 1909). 

 Length of body 1.4 mm.; colour dark lirown to Islack ; antennae lirown 

 unicolorous with body ; fore-wings light brown. 



Genus Franklinothrips Back 



F. vespiformis Crawford (Pomona Journ. Ent., Vol. 1, 1909). 

 Length of body 1.6 mm.; colour dark brown with first two and part of 

 third abdominal segments light ; antennal segments 1-3 clear pale yellow ; 

 fore-wings shaded brown, with a small clear area near bse and another 

 almost at the tip and a larger clear area near centre. 



F. tenuicornis Hood (Ent. News, Vol. 26, 1915). Length of body 

 1.8 mm.; colour blackish-brown; antennal segments 1-4 clear pale 

 yellow, remainder dark blackish-lirown. 



Genus Aeolothrips Haliday 

 a. Antennal segment 4 uniformly similar in colour to segments 5-9. 



1). Antennal segment 2 wholly concolorous with segment 1 ; fore- 

 wings clear white with dark l->rown longitudinal band covering 

 posterior half near base to near tip. Length of body 1.6 mm.; 

 antennal segment 3 lemon-yellow shaded light brown at tip, 



kuwanaii Moulton. 

 bb. Length of body 2.4 mm. ; antennal segment 3 light lirown with a 

 touch of purple pigment at the base. 



kuwanaii var. robustus Moulton. 



bbb. Antennal segment 2 lighter in colour, wholly or in part, to 



segment 1 ; fore-wings with dark cross bands reaching from 



anterior margin of wing to the posterior margin. 



c. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen white; length of body 1.9 mm.; 



antennal segment 3 very pale yellowish-white except brown 



band around apex, antennal segment 2 brown at base, fading 



to light yellowish at apex bicolor Hinds. 



cc. Abdominal segments more or less imicolorous, brown. 



d. Last four segments of antennae equal to the fifth alone : 

 segment 3 one and one-third times as long as 1 and 2 

 together; length of body 1.6 mm.; antennae brown except 

 tip of 2 and all but extreme tip of 3, which are nearly white, 



remainder concolorous. fasciatus Linn. 



dd. Last four segments of antennae one and one-fourth times 

 as long as segment 5 ; segment 3 one and one-half times as 

 long as 1 and 2 together; length of body 2-1 mm.; antennal 

 segment 2 light brown, 3 lemon-yellow shaded light brown 

 at the tip, remaining segments concolorous Avith rest of the 

 body nasturtii Jones. 



