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Florida Entomologist 
Official Organ of the Florida Entomological Society 
VOL. VI WINTER NUMBER No. 3 
DECEMBER, 1922 
ON A COLLECTION OF THYSANOPTERA FROM 
RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA 
J. R. WATSON 
A vacation of fifteen days spent in north-eastern Georgia dur- 
ing the latter part of August and the first days of September, 
1922, gave the writer an opportunity to compare the thrips fauna 
of that region with that of Florida. 
There are no records of any considerable collection of thrips 
from this region. The nearest localities that have been inten- 
sively studied are about Clarksville, Tenn., where Morgan has 
collected, and about Washington, D. C., where Hood has done 
much of his collecting. 
Rabun County is in the north-eastern corner of Georgia. It 
is high and mountainous, the elevations ranging from about 2000 
feet to 3900. As to the vegetation: here we found most of our 
boyhood friends (and enemies too—such as nettles and bur- 
docks) of northern Ohio. But in the valleys one notes such 
southern plants as bitterweed (Helenium tenuifolium) and sweet 
gums and on the mountain sides the belated blossoms of the 
sourwood (Oxydendron arboreum) were conspicuous. On the 
whole the vegetation is much like that of southern Ohio or 
Kentucky. 
The first observation to be made was the scarcity of thrips as 
compared with Florida. They are by no means such an important 
part of the fauna as with us. They do not force themselves upon 
one’s attention. One must hunt for them, otherwise he would 
scarcely discover their existence. 
The most productive collecting was, as usual, in flowers. Even 
such an unlikely blossom as the Indian pipe supplied us with one. 
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