106 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [ Mar., ’16 
Anasa armigera Say. Boston, Massachusetts, 24 Sept., 1914; 
13 Oct., 1915 (Parshley). 
I believe that these are the first New England records for 
this species. The two specimens were taken at almost the 
same spot in two successive years. The individual captured in 
1914 differs in some details from typical western specimens in 
my collection, but the other is so distinctly intermediate as to 
forbid even racial separation from typical armigera. 
PENTATOMIDAE. 
Zicrona caerulea Linn. Newbury Neck (near Surrey), Maine, 
22-24 June, 1904 (F. A. Eddy). 
This cosmopolite is widely distributed in the West, but there 
is only one other record of its occurrence in New England 
(Mt. Washington, New Hampshire). I have compared the 
specimen with others in my collection from the Caucasus and 
Java and note but slight differences apart from size. 
A New Species of Heterothrips (Thysanoptera) from 
Eastern United States. 
By J. Doucias Hoop, U. S. Biological Survey, Washington, 
DLe 
Heterothrips vitis sp. nov. 
1913—Heterothrips arisaemae Morgan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 
46, p. 44. (Appomatox, Virginia; on wild grape). (A misidentification, 
nec Hood, 1908). 
Female (macropterous).—Length about I mm. Color dark blackish 
brown, with tarsi and distal ends of all tibiae very pale yellow; basal 
portions of antennal segments 3 and 4 more or less yellowish, the re- 
mainder of antenna grayish brown. 
Head about 1.6 times as long as median dorsal length and about 0.7 
as long as prothorax, widest near base, cheeks tapering roundly an- 
teriorly; surface closely transversely striate and with a few minute 
spines, impressed in the region of the anterior ocellus; frontal costa 
with deep, U-shaped emargination; ocellar area not delimited by chiti- 
nous lines. Eyes setose, about two-thirds as long as head, slightly 
wider than their dorsal interval, not bounded behind by a chitinous line. 
Ocelli of posterior pair twice the diameter of anterior ocellus, about 
half as wide as their interval. Antennae about 2.8 times as long as 
head; segment 3 more or less conical and about 2.8 times as long as 
