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to rear these in numbers to be distributed over the state. They 
seem to bear shipment well, only about 20% of the beetles having 
died during the long journey without food from California. The 
Department is very desirous of securing mealy bugs to feed 
these lady beetles. Any of our readers finding any considerable 
number of mealy bugs will do a great service by sending a box 
of them by express collect to the Experiment Station. 
Jens 
AN ADDITION TO THE THYSANOPTERA OF FLORIDA—XI 
J. R. WATSON 
83. Hoplandrothrips xanthopoides Bagnall. 
This insect was described in 1917 in the Journal of Biological 
Research from a single male collected in St. Vincent, British 
W.I. No reference to it has appeared since. The writer recently 
received from E. S. Sasscer, of the Federal Horticultural Board, 
three females and a male, and numerous larvae collected in the 
Plant Introduction Gardens in Miami. This find enables us to 
describe the female. 
Female. Forma macroptera. Length about 2 mm. (from 1.7 to 2.2 mm.). 
Color similar to the male. In my specimens the base of antennal segment 6 
is yellow as well as segments 3, 4, and 5 and abdominal segment 8 is yellow 
in the middle only. Head, thorax, and sides of the abdomen with much red 
hypodermal pigment. 
Measurements: Head, length 0.25 mm., width 0.21 mm.; prothorax, 
length 0.18 mm., width, including coxa, 0.36 mm.; antennae, segment 1, 40; 
2, dU; 3, 883 4, 853 5, 675 6, 593 7, 543285 36 microns lone Mouthecone 
shorter than in the male, not reaching the mesosternum. Postocular bristles 
shorter than in the male, but little longer than the eyes. Fore femora con- 
siderably enlarged but not nearly as large as in the male, with a small 
tooth on the inner side near the end (not evident in all specimens.) Tooth 
of the fore tarsus well developed but much shorter than in the male. Wings 
somewhat constricted in the middle, 7 to 9 interlocated bristles. 
Male. In my specimen the postocular bristles are even longer than de- 
scribed by Bagnall, about 1.5 as long as the eye, greatly enlarged and fun- 
nel-form at the tip, sharply curved outward. The fore tibia has the tooth 
characteristics of the genus. Fore tarsus with a long, powerful tooth. Only 
9 interlocated hairs on the fore wings in the place of the 12 in Bagnall’s 
specimen. 
Larva. Light grayish brown but so liberally provided with red hypoder- 
mal pigment as to appear red. 
Collected by Mr. W. B. Wood of the Federal Horticultural 
Board from Moringa oleifera, Ziziphus mauritiana, Atalaya hem- 
iglauca, and Randia tomentosa Feb. 1923. 
