SPRING AND SUMMER NUMBERS Teal 
cc. Abdomen closely pubescent; thorax finely striate. 
d. Third antennae segment about 3.6 times as 
long as greatest width, grayish yellow. 
H. analis Hood. 
dd. Third antennal segment less than 3 times as 
long as wide; pale yellow with orange pig- 
Ment) eee H. vitis Hood. (Hood 1916.) 
bb. Posterior margins of abdominal tergites 1-7 fringed with 
GHMUIMO USI S Calle spe ene eee H. pectinifer Hood. 
FAMILY MEROTHRIPIDAE 
28. Merothrips Morgan Hood. 
Pine Key, Jan. 1914. Found by Mr. R. C. Shannon in shell and 
debris. Taken by Mr. John B. Henderson. 
Extends north to Maryland and Illinois. 
FAMILY PHLOEOTHRIPIDAE 
29. Anthothrips niger Osborn. (Redescribed by Hinds ’02, p. 188.) 
Quincy, 1905, on oats, wheat and tomatoes (Hooker, ’07); March- 
May on Plantago virginica, rye, corn, rutabaga, oats, tomatoes, 
cocoa-grass. A. C. Morgan and H. F. Wilson. (Morgan, 713.) 
30. Anthothrips dozieri n. sp. 
2?.—Measurements. Length 1.5 mm. Head, length 0.187 mm., width 
0.187 mm.; prothorax, length 0.16 mm., width 0.267 mm.; mesothorax, 
width 0.31 mm.; abdomen, width ; tube, length 0.126 mm., width at 
base 0.069 mm., at the end 0.035 mm.; antennae, segment 1, 24; 2, 46; 
DOE OS SEO MOM: Oralis h, 29s. 65 20) microns:) total length) 0312 mms: 
Color uniformly dark reddish brown except segments 3-6 of antennae. 
Legs 3-5 yellow, base of 6 yellowish-brown, apex light brown. Eyes red- 
dish brown. 
Head square; cheeks slightly arched and somewhat converging poster- 
iorly. Ocelli large, posterior pair situated well forward, opposite the 
anterior third of the eyes whose margins they nearly touch, concolorous 
with the eyes. Mouth cone rather long and acute, reaching nearly to the 
posterior border of the prothorax. Post-ocular spine short and slender, 
tipped with a small and almost colorless but distinct knob as are all the 
spines on the anterior part of the body. 
Antennae 8-segmented; segments rounded, the fourth somewhat thicker 
than the others. Sense cones and spines short, light-colored, and incon- 
spicuous. 
Prothorax wider than long, sides arched and converging markedly an- 
teriorly; knobbed spines on both the anterior and posterior angles short. 
Mesothorax somewhat wider, sides nearly parallel. One large, knobbed 
spine along the margin opposite the base of the wing. Other spines small 
and not knobbed. 
Legs short and slender, weak, fore femora not thickened. 
Wings well developed. Membrane reaching three-fourths the length of 
