New South African Thysanoptera. 



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Family IDOLOTHKIPID^, Bagnall. 



Gen. PANUROTHKIPS, Bagnall. 

 Panurotheips caudatus, sp. nov. 



B. 



Panurotiirips caudatus, sp. nov. 

 A. End of abdomen x 20. B. Head, pro thorax, and right foie-leg X 40. 



Length about 5"8 mm. ; breadth of mesothorax, 0'75 mm. 



Colour black with brownish tinge in certain lights ; tarsi and end 

 of tube brown. 



Head cylindrical, only slightly more than twice as long as broad 

 near base ; cheeks set with a few short slender spines, straight and 

 slightly broadened before base ; vertex raised and produced into a 

 blunt conical hump, at the extremity of which is seated the anterior 

 ocellus. Eyes comparatively large, moderately finely faceted and 

 bulging slightly ; postocular bristles short. Ocelli reddish yellow ; 

 large and practically equidistant ; posterior pair placed on a line 

 drawn through the eyes near their anterior margin and close to 

 their inner margins, but, owing to the raised vertex, they are on 

 a higher level than the eyes. Antennae inserted beneath vertex 

 and approximate at base; first joint cylindrical, black; second 

 longer than first, cylindrical, narrowed at base, and yellowish 

 brown in colour ; rest of antennae unfortunately broken in the type 

 specimen. 



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