SPRING NUMBER 119 
dd. Wings clouded with gray, a nearly black area 
at the base and a paler one just before the 
middle, 2 interlocated hairs. 
H. nubilipennis Hood. 
ec. Width of the tube at the base less than 1.5 width at 
apexcm a GWi., Ts) -222 ee. eee H. gowdeyi Hood. 
No. 29 of our previous list (Buggist, Vol. I, No. 4, p. 71) An- 
thothrips niger Osborn, is synonymous with No. 45 Haplothrips 
statices Haliday. We have therefore given the new species No. 
29. 
56. Frankliniella insularis (Franklin). Miami, Mar. 1919. 
Collected by A. C. Mason on flowers of Citrus and Carissa grandi- 
flora. This thrips is widespread thru Mexico and the West Indies. 
PERSONALS 
Thomas H. Jones of the Bureau of Entomology, Division of 
Truck and Garden Crops, stationed in Louisiana, is in the state 
for a few weeks in connection with extension work on the melon 
aphis. 
Mr. Fiske of the Columbia, 8S. C., laboratory of the U. S. 
Bureau of Entomology was a recent visitor at Gainesville in 
connection with some work on corn insects that is being carried 
on in cooperation with the Experiment Station. Mr. Fiske is 
a classmate of Mr. Geo. B. Merrill of the Plant Board. 
Mr. Merrill has been passing the cigars—a young entomolo- 
gist. 
Miss Evelyn Osborn is a temporary assistant in the Depart- 
ment of Entomology of the Experiment Station. Miss Osborn 
is a daughter of Prof. Herbert Osborn, the noted entomologist 
of Ohio State University. 
Farmer’s Bulletin 1029, ‘Conserving Corn from Weevils in 
the Gulf Coast States”, by E. A. Back, contains some data and 
photographs obtained by Mr. R. L. Clute here in Florida last 
summer. 
W.S. Blatchley in Canadian Entomologist, Vol. LI, No. 3, p. 
65, treats of “Some New or Scarce Coleoptera from Florida’. 
We are able to add a new locality and two host plants to one of 
the species he mentions. Tachygonus lecontei Gyll has been 
taken at Gainesville from holly and prickly ash. Dec. 2 and 
April 18. 
The Business Manager of THE BUGGIST spent ten days during 
last February assisting in the Better Fruit Campaign in Florida. 
