1924] 
On Some Phloeothripidce from the Transvaal 
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ON SOME NEW PHLCEOTHRIPID^ (THYSANOPTERA) 
FROM THE TRANSVAAL 
By J. Douglas Hood, 
University of Rochester. 
The new species described below constitute only a very 
small part of a collection of Thysanoptera made in the Transvaal 
by Mr. Jacobus C. Faure, Professor of Entomology in the 
Transvaal University College, at Pretoria. The descriptions 
were prepared early in 1924, before I learned that Mr. Faure 
had himself decided to work up the Thysanoptera of Southern 
Africa, and while I was engaged in special studies of the genera 
to which they belong. It is to be hoped that Mr. Faure will 
soon publish his interesting observations on the group. 
Compsothrips recticeps sp. nov. 
Feynale (apterous).— Length about 2.9 mm. Color nearly 
black, with posterior margin of pterothorax, first abdominal 
segment, sides of second segment, and a pair of lateral blotches 
on fifth segment, white; trochanters, and hind coxae, brown; 
antennae nearly black, excepting apical portion of segment 2, 
which is brownish yellow, and segment 3, which is brownish 
yellow and heavily shaded with blackish brown near base and at 
apex; subhypodermal pigmentation purple. 
Head 2.3 times as long as wide, broadest across eyes, surface 
nearly smooth, lightly reticulate at base; cheeks nearly parallel 
in anterior three-fifths, slightly converging posteriorly; anterior 
prolongation of head with sides slightly converging anteriorly; 
vertex flattened, sloping downward, and with a slight median 
ridge in lower portions; frontal costa slightly concave; three 
pairs of short, knobbed bristles on head, the anterior pair longest 
and situated near anterior angles of eyes, the middle pair just in 
front of posterior margins of eyes, the posterior pair well down on 
cheeks and somewhat more than twice their length behind eyes. 
Eyes protruding, less than one-fourth as long as head and less 
than one-half as wide as their interval. Ocelli wanting. An- 
