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nostoma sp., Melanostoma sp. There are a number of Blue-bot- 
tles and Green-bottles about, especially the little Orthellia cor- 
nicini. There are a few Tachinid Flies about too, the most com- 
mon being Archytas lateralis, built on the plan of a Blue-bottle, 
but hairy. 
Beetles do not seem to be particularly attracted to the wild 
plum. The common little Soldier Beetle or Firefly, Chauliog- 
nathus marginatus, is of course, here. From now to late Novem- 
ber hardly a blossom will appear that will not be overrun with 
these. Here too is the adult of the Southern Corn Root Worm, 
the “Bud Worm” of the Carolinas and Georgia, Diabrotica 12- 
punctata. We Floridians reserve the name “Bud Worm” for 
the first generation of the Corn Ear Worm. The “Black Weevil” 
of corn, Calandra oryzae, is here too. I take some pretty little 
bronze colored Chrysomelids, Monachus thoracicus, and large 
numbers of a minute Chrysomelid and an equally small weevil 
as well as a Bruchus. 
Neither are true bugs much in evidence. There is an occa- 
sional Stink Bug, Pentatomid, mostly EHuschistus servus and E. 
variolaris, and a Capsid or two are met with. The Green Peach 
Aphid, Myzus persicae, is common and the minute predator 
Triphleps insidiosus, which is to be found in most blossoms, is 
here in small numbers feeding on plant lice and thrips. 
ADDITIONS TO THE THYSANOPTERA OF FLORIDA—V 
J. R. WATSON AND EVELYN OSBORN 
29. Haplothrips orlando, n. sp. 
FEMALE. Length 2 mm. Color, including the entire antennae, uni- 
formly dark brown, with considerable reddish-brown hypodermal pigmen- 
tation. 
Head nearly a third longer than wide, surface striated; cheeks slightly 
arched and converging posteriorly, roughened with minute elevations and 
set with a few hairs; post-ocular spines rather long and slender but pale. 
Hyes rather small, occupying little more than a third of the profile of the 
head. Posterior ocelli large, situated opposite the middle of the eyes and 
in contact with their margins, directed partly outward. Anterior ocellus 
directed forward.- Mouth-cone shorter than its width at the base, scarcely 
reaching the middle of the prosternum, rounded. Antennae about 1.5 
times as long as the head, segments unusually uniform in size, shape and 
color; hairs short and weak. 
Prothorax but little more than half the length of the head, 2.5 times as 
wide as long, sides widely diverging posteriorly; posterior angles rounded, 
each bearing a medium-sized bristle on the posterior border and a shorter 
one in front of it; two minute bristles on the anterior border near the mid- 
