124 ORDER II. Thrips. 



Genus XII. Thrips. 



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Linn. Syfl. Nat. page 743. 



The roftrum of the Thrips is obfcure, or 

 fo fmall as to be fcarce perceptible. 



The antennae are as long as the thorax. 



The body is (lender, and of equal thick- 

 nefs in its whole length. 



The abdomen is reflexible, or bent 

 upwards. 



The four wings are extended, incumbent 

 upon the back of the infed, narrow in pro- 

 portion to their length, and crofs one an- 

 other at fome diftance from their bafe. 



Geoffroy fays, that the antennas in this genus 

 are filiform. 



He has not been able to difcover the probofcis 

 of this infecl, and alTerts, with Schasffer, that the 

 mouth is formed by a fimple longitudinal cleft, 

 in which, he adds, it is poffible that the jaws 

 may be concealed ; and as the Thrips would, in 



his 



