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Mouth cone long, reaching the mesosternum. Antennae 8-segmented, 
segments 2 and 5-8 concolorous with the head; 1, 3, and the base of 4 
lighter brown. Spines dark and thick and quite conspicuous. 
Prothora@x a third longer than the head and nearly .4 wider than long; 
sides quite convex, but little wider posteriorly than anteriorly; pronotum 
faintly reticulate striate; one long, one rather short but thick, and one 
minute bristle on each anterior angle; a pair of long and one minute bristle 
on each posterior angle; three pairs of bristles along the anterior margin, 
the second of which are longer. 
Sides of the very short mesothorax strongly convex and diverging 
posteriorly, those of the even shorter metathorax nearly straight and 
slightly diverging posteriorly. Two heavy spines near the anterior angles 
of the pterothorax and the metanotum covered with short ones like the 
abdomen. Wings entirely lacking. Legs rather short, the fore femora 
especially so, the latter with a small tooth at the apex on the inner side. 
Fore tibiae almost as thick as the femora, with a heavy black bristle below 
the apex on the inside. Tarsi unarmed. Abdomen wide and heavy, the 
last two segments with very long, heavy, dark bristles.on the sides. 
Described from two females collected from Iris trifoliata at Jacksonville, 
Fla., by Mr. W. T. Owrey of the Federal Horticultural Board. 
This species resembles Sericothrips apteris Daniels, in color, the ab- 
sence of wings, and the long mouth cone, but differs in the presence 
of ocelli, suture on antennal segment 6, two long bristles on the posterior 
angles of the prothorax, the presence of a tooth at the apex of the fore 
femora, and in the shorter head. 
91. Chirothrips floridensis catchingsi Wats. 
Under the leaf sheaths of Napier grass, Gainesville, Dec. 1924. 
Previously described from Louisiana (Bull. 168, Fla. Agric. Exp. Sta.) 
The Third International Congress of Entomology will be held 
at Zurich, Switzerland, July 19th to 26th, 1925, with Dr. A. V. 
Schulthess as president. General Secretary Dr. Leuzinger, Glo- 
riastrasse 72, Zurich, 7, Switzerland. All entomologists are 
cordially invited. For the Executive Committee, 
Henry Skinner. 
The first and second congresses held at Brussels and Oxford, 
respectively, were very successful and it is now proposed to 
hold the third congress in a neutral country where entomolo- 
gists of the belligerent countries could meet without embarrass- 
ment, and Switzerland has been suggested as a suitable place 
and attractive in many ways and convenient for the majority. 
