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on June 15 there were 16 chrysalids. Ten had died without 

 transforming. Two were drowned and one was crushed. On 

 June 20 the first adult beetle appeared. (Phytodecta pallidus 

 Linn.) 



NEW THYSANOPTERA FROM NEW YORK. 



By J. R. Watson, Gainesville, Fla. 



A small collection of thrips captured in the Adirondacks and 

 about Syracuse during the summer of 1919 by Prof. Carl J. 

 Drake, of the New York State College of Forestry, was sub- 

 mitteci to the author for identification, as was also a large series 

 of a single species collected about Syracuse in 1920 by Miss 

 Evelyn Osborn, Professor of Entomology in the School of Agri- 

 culture of Syracuse University. Among these are four unde- 

 scribed species. 



Trichothrips drakei n. sp. 



Female: Apterous. General color dark brown. Inter- 

 mediate antennal segments, tarsi, and tibiae lighter brown. 

 Measurements: Total body length 2.8 mm. (2.4 to 2.9 mm.) ; 

 head — length 0.35 mm., width 0.25 mm. ; prothorax — length 

 0.25 mm., width including coxae 0.51 mm.; metathorax — 

 width 0.57 mm. ; abdomen — greatest width 0.73 mm. ; tube — 

 length 0.31 mm., width at base o.ii mm., at apex 0.052 mm. 

 Antennae — total length 0.74 mm. ; 



Segment i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ., 



Length 73 73 120 109 98 87 70 52 



Width 57 39 43 40 36 35 30 20 microns. 



Head about 1.75 times as long as wide, widest behind the 

 eyes and converging posteriorly ; cheeks slightly arched, bear- 

 ing a few thick, heavy bristles arising from low, wart-like 

 protuberances; postocular bristles long, reaching beyond the 

 anterior margins of the eyes. Eyes small, sunken, occupying 

 less than a fourth of the length and .6 the width of the head ; 

 facets small. Ocelli large, reddish brown; anterior situated 

 far forward between the bases of the antennae, facing for- 

 ward ; posterior pair situated opposite the anterior half of 

 the eyes and near, but not touching, their margins. Mouth 

 cone long, reaching fully three-fourths of the way across the 



