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bb. Abdomen lighter. 
ce. Abdomen gray brown or yellowish brown; length 0.78 mm. 
—crassus. 
ce. Abdomen yellow. 
d. Thorax yellow ochre shaded with gray; length about 
1.1 mm.; front of head with numerous’ small 
spines. —vestis. 
dd. Thorax yellowish brown; length 0.7 to 0.8 mm.; front 
of head with one or two pairs of spines. 
e. Posterior ocelli opposite posterior border of eyes; 
each vein of fore wing with 4 to 6 spines.— 
—obesus. 
ee. Posterior ocelli opposite middle of eyes; anterior 
vein with 4, posterior with 2 spines. 
—obesus hubbelii. 
94. Liothrips muscorum n. sp. 
Male. 
Color, including even the tarsi of the legs, a uniform dark brown, tho- 
rax and abdomen with much blood red hypodermal pigment, antennal seg- 
ments 3-6 mostly yellow. 
Measurements: Total body length 1.17 mm. Head, length 0.22 mm., 
width, 0.185 mm.; prothorax, length 0.127 mm.; width (including coxae) 0.29 
mm.; pterothorax, greatest width 0.33 mm.; abdomen, greatest width 0.34 
mm.; tube, length 0.15 mm., width at base 0.06 mm., at apex 0.037 mm. 
Antennae, segment. 1, 30; 2, 43> 3) 805 4, 74; 5, 63376, Gls" 7, bias ae 
microns. 
Total length, 0.44 mm. 
Head but little longer than wide, widest some distance behind the eyes, 
cheeks arched, converging quite sharply posteriorly, dorsal surface fine- 
ly striated. Postocular bristles about .6 the length of eyes, blunt. Eyes 
rather large but diameter somewhat less than the distance between them, 
- dark, not pilose. Ocelli straw colored, posterior ones contiguous to the 
inner margins of the eyes in front of their middle, the anterior one fac- 
ing forward, inconspicuous, on a line with the anterior border of the eyes. 
(To be continued.) 
The State Plant Board has at the Lake Alfred Station nearly 
a thousand of the Chinese lady beetles (Leis sp.) for distribu- 
tion to the growers as soon as the citrus aphid becomes suffi- 
ciently abundant to insure a constant food supply. These lady 
beetles have been bred by Mr. W. L. Thompson. There are also 
a few hundred of these beetles at the Experiment Station at 
Gainesville where they have been bred by Mr. H. E. Bratley. 
At both places they have been mostly dormant during Decem- 
ber and January. 
