IIU4 LIST or HOMOPTEBODS INSECTS. 



Antennae apicula Subgenus. 



connata 1. Aptinothrips. 



discreta : Proihorax antice 



valde angustatus 3. CuiROTHiiiPs. 



parum angustatus : 

 Abdomen dorso 



efoveolatum 2. Limothrips. 



seriatim foveolatum : 



AntennsB apicula pioiatione articu- 

 li 6ti 



brevis 4. Thhips. 



elongata 5. Belothrips. 



Subgenus I. APTINOTHRIPS. 

 Aptinothrips, Hal. Enl. Mag. iii. 445. 



Antennae articulo 6to lonciore apice attcnuato-exannulato : 

 ocelli nulli : corpus lineaie glabrum, abdominis dorso el'oveolato : 

 alarum ne minimo quidem vestigio. 



1. Aptinothrips rdpa. 



Thrips Apt. rufa, Hal. Enl. Mag. iii. 446, 4. 



Thrips rufa, {Gleiclien, Neuestes im Reich der Pflanz. pi. 16, f. 6, 7). 

 Omel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 4, 2224, 10. 



Ferruginea, oculis et rostri apice fuscis fcem. : pallide flava, 

 abdoraine glandulis geminis croceis perluccntibus, segmento penul- 

 timo ante apiccm medium bispinoso tnas. Long./aw. j — j lin. 



Hub. In gramine et cerealibus. 

 a. EuglanJ. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 



" My brief description of Aptinothrips rufa, induced Burmeister 

 to set it down as a larva without doubt: but rashly, for thecxarticu- 

 lale apex of the antennie is no indication of this state, as he seems to 

 infer. It is a perfect insect with compound eyes, smooth coriaceous 

 integuments, connected segments of pterothorax and prominent 



