Zo THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
at apex 0.027 mm. Antennae: Segment 1, 24; 2, 44; 3, 67; 4, 56; 5, 46; 
6, 40; 7, 44; 8, 27 microns; total length 0.36 mm. 
Head: 1.3 longer than wide, vertex rounded, striate towards the pos- 
terior margin; frons elevated; head widest just above the base; cheeks 
slightly convex, bearing a few short hairs; postocular bristles short, 
reaching but little past the posterior margins of the eyes. Hyes rather 
large, slightly protruding; red by reflected light, black by transmitted; 
non-pilose; facets large. Ocelli large, yellow, bordered with dark crescents; 
situated on the elevated frons, the anterior directed forward, the posterior 
pair widely separated, opposite the anterior third of the eyes from whose 
margins they are well separated. Mouth-cone short, reaching about half way 
across the prosternum; rounded at the tip. Antennae 1.8 times as long as 
the head; dark brown except most of segment 3, basal half of 4, and the 
extreme base of 5 which are a lighter, yellowish brown, segment 3 long 
and narrow. All bristles very small. Sense cones somewhat larger but 
colorless and inconspicuous. 
Prothorax little more than half the length of the head, nearly twice as 
wide as long; trapezoidal; a prominent bristle on each posterior angle. 
These bristles have pale, dilated tips, all others are sharp pointed. 
Pterothorax with sides nearly parallel; upper surface striated. Wings 
moderately long; membrane quite markedly constricted above the middle, 
colorless except for a trace of brown at the extreme base of the primaries, 
fringed with comparatively few and short hairs, four interlocated ones on 
the primaries. Legs rather long and slender, concolorous with the body 
except the fore tibiae which are paler, fore femora not swollen, no spines 
on the basal segments of the tarsi; hind tibiae each with a very thick, 
heavy bristle near the end. 
Abdomen rather long and slender, anterior segments with three or four 
prominent bristles on each side, the median one or two sigmoid; on the 
posterior segments these become curved but not sigmoid; a pair on the 
ninth segment considerably longer than the tube. Tube rather wide for its 
length; terminal bristles much longer than the tube. Male not seen. De- 
scribed from a single female taken by Mr. Geo. B. Merrill from an unknown 
shrub collected at Elfers by Mr. C. P. Sheffield, March, 1922. Type in the 
author’s collection. 
80. Hindsiana cocois Watson. 
This insect was recently (Fla. Entomologist, Vol. V, No. 4, April, 
1922) described from specimens collected from cocoanuts from Cuba taken 
from quarantine at Key West. Mr. Mosnette has sent us five larvae taken 
from under scales of cocoanuts at Miami, and Mr. George B. Merrill has 
collected a half dozen specimens from a mango from Oneco, Fla. As in the 
case of the other specimens, they were associated with scale insects. The 
insect is probably predaceous. 
81. Cryptothrips laureli Mason (Ent. News Vol. XXXIII, No. 7). 
The Bay Thrips. On all species of the genus Tamala in Central Florida 
from Frost Proof to Daytona. It probably occurs throughout Northern 
Florida but seems to be absent from the bays on the lower East Coast. 
Closely related to the Camphor thrips with which it was long confused. 
