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by Hood but that it should be considered as a mere variety, though 
a well-marked one, as originally given by Morgan, and that its 
proper name is F'rankliniella tritici bispinosa (Morgan). 
In size bispinosa averages a trifle smaller than tritici. The 
average total length of several hundred measured was 1.1 mm., 
while the average of all the tritici in the writer’s collection is 
1.15 mm. On the other hand, where the two forms meet at Cot- 
tage Hill bispinosa measured 1.25 mm., while tritici averaged 
1.09 mm. and at Loxley, Ala., only 1.03 mm. F'rankliniella cepha- 
alica masoni averaged only 1.02 mm. 
In regard to the distribution of the variety most of the speci- 
mens from Cottage Hill, Escambia County, Fla., were bispinosa, 
but there was a minority of tritici. In a collection from as far 
east as Panama City there were a few tritici. On the other hand, 
a collection from Loxley, Ala., was mostly tritict with a sprink- 
ling of bispinosa and the same was true of several collections 
from near Gulfport, Miss., sent in by Mr. E. K. Bynum of the 
State Plant Board of Mississippi. It would thus seem that in the 
west there is a remarkably close coincidence between the dividing 
line of the two forms and the boundary of the state. On the 
northern border a collection taken a few miles north of Val- 
dosta, Ga., by F. W. Walker were all bispinosa, while specimens 
received from Atlanta were all tritici. 
We have thus in Florida three yellow, flower-inhabiting thrips 
of the genus F'rankliniella. The most common one is F’. tritici 
bispinosa (Morgan), which ranges over the entire state and ex- 
tends but little over the state line in the west but well up into 
Georgia. F’. tritici (Fitch) comes into the western end of the 
state in small numbers. In the south but ranging in small num- 
bers as far north as Daytona is another species, Ff’. cephalica 
masont. Wats. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FROM BRAZIL 
“The other day the young fellow who is working here in the 
enclosure as a care taker of the plants hollered for me to come 
and help him with a big “‘bicho!’”’ When I got there I found it 
was a Buprestid that measured over six centimeters in length. 
Some time ago the servant’s daughter brought us a Prionid that 
measured over eight centimeters in length, not including his 
antennae. 
“We had spent lots of time and exercised lots of care in getting 
some really magnificent things that Mr. Haddon took through for 
