1924 ] On Some New Phloeothripidce from the Transvaal 
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Described from 2 females taken by Mr. J. C. Faure at 
Duivelskloof, Transvaal, December 7, 1918, “on grass” (No. 407). 
The coloration of the antennae and body associate this 
species with C. alhosignatus (Reuter) from which it differs most 
conspicuously in the much shorter third antennal segment and 
the shape of the head. 
Stictothrips gen. nov. 
{Stiktos, spotted; thrips a wood worm) 
Depressed; roughened, non-shining and mottled above; 
glabrous beneath. Head not elongate, rounded but not swollen 
behind eyes, narrowed at base; cheeks with several prominent 
funnel-shaped bristles; vertex with a cup-like depression or 
groove, with the anterior ocellus at its upper edge. Eyes large, 
rounded and closely facetted, dorsal extent much greater than 
ventral.^ Fore femora not enlarged nor toothed; fore tarsi 
armed in both sexes. Wings of fore pair broad at base, abruptly 
constricted at basal two-fifths, apical three-fifths narrow, parallel- 
sided, delicately but distinctly reticulate, without median vein. 
Abdomen with a broad dorsal furrow for the reception of the 
wings. All prominent body bristles fan-shaped. Terminal 
bristles shorter than tube, pointed. 
Genotype: Phloeothrips maculatus Hood. 
Closest to N eurothrips , even to the general plan of coloration 
and the habits of the two known species, but separable by the 
absence of the median vein of the wing, the less swollen cheeks, 
and the short terminal bristles. 
Stictothrips fanrei sp. nov. 
Female (macropterous) . — Length about 1.6 mm. Color (to 
naked eye or as seen under hand lens) pale yellowish brown, 
intricately mottled with white and brown, with head, pterothorax, 
and tube dark brown, and appendages annulate with blackish 
brown. Under 16 mm. objective, the color appears paler — more 
nearly brownish yellow; head pale brown, vertex yellow, a 
narrow, median brown streak on dorsum of head behind eyes, 
