AUTUMN NUMBER PAS 
by strongly raised nervures, faintly pubescent, mostly dark brown to nearly 
black in color. Antennae brown, the apical segment somewhat darkened. 
Body beneath brown, usually tinged with ferrugineous. Legs brown, the 
tips of femora and bases of tibiae, and the tarsi dark. Rostrum extending 
slightly beyond the meso-metasternal suture. Rostral sulcus open behind. 
Akin to T. scrupolosa Stal, but readily separated from it by 
the longer and much less pilose antennae; the pubescence in the 
discoidal area is almost entirely wanting. Twelve specimens. 
Florida: Crescent City, September 7, 1898, Otto Heidemann Col- 
lector. Jamaica: Mandeville, Kingston, January to April, 1908, 
E. P. Van Duzee Collector. Type in my collection; paratypes 
in the collections of E. P. Van Duzee, Cornell University (late 
Heidemann Collection) and of the writer. 
THE NATIVE HOST-PLANT OF THE CAMPHOR THRIPS. 
(Cryptothrips floridensis Watson.) * 
The camphor thrips was first collected by Mr. W. O. Richtman, 
on the camphor farm at Satsuma in November, 1912 (see An. 
Rep. Fla. Ag. Exp. Sta. 1913, p. Ixvii). Subsequent search 
thruout Florida revealed its presence in many places, but by 
no means in all those investigated. This discontinuous distri- 
bution and our failure to find the insect on any plant except 
camphor, which is an introduced plant, finally led us to the 
opinion that it is an introduced pest, perhaps brought to us on 
camphor. This opinion was strengthened by the receipt of a 
single poor specimen of an adult and several larvae of apparently 
this species collected on camphor in Ceylon (An. Rep. Fla. Ag. 
Exp. ota. 1915, p. xxi). 
The first evidence that pointed to an Nopuecie: conclusion was 
gathered on a visit to the DuPont Camphor Farm at Waller last 
July. The insect was not noticed in this plantation until spring 
of this year and one of the first centers of infestation was near: 
a “bayhead” in an out-of-the-way section of the farm. This 
pointed to the bayhead as a possible source of the insect. Ac- 
cordingly the native vegetation in the bayhead was subjected to 
a vigorous sweeping and a single adult of the camphor thrips 
was captured. Altho this pointed strongly to the bayhead as 
the home of the insect, there was a possibility that the thrips 
caught there had strayed into the bayhead from neighboring 
*Paper read’ before the Florida Entomological Society Sept. 29, 1919. 
