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three times the width of an eye. Surface highly poHshed and shining, and faintly and 

 finely reticulated near neck. Ocelli absent ; post-ocular bristles very long, and a pair of 

 shorter bristles between eyes. Mouth-cone broadly rounded and reaching for about 

 three-quarters the length of the prosternum. Antennae more than twice as long as the 

 head, separated at base; second joint constricted at base, cyathiform; joints three to five 

 claviform and practically sub-equal in length ; sixth joint only slightly narrowed to base, 

 about four-fifths the length of fifth ; seventh narrowing to tip, about two-thirds the 

 length of the preceding ; apical joint as broad as tip of the penultimate joint and 

 narrowed to apex. Antennal hairs very long and slender ; sense-cones very difficult to 

 distinguish in dried specimens, apparently rather long and acute, and one pair on each 

 of the joints three to six. 



Prothorax flat, about one and one-half times as broad as long ; mid-lateral, 

 anterior-marginal and spines at anterior angles minute, those at posterior angles 

 apparently longer and stronger, and the posterior-marginal pair exceptionally long. 

 Legs comparatively long, fore-femur as long as the head and slightly incrassate ; fore- 

 tibia almost as long as the femur, and fore-tarsus armed with a minute distal tooth. 

 Hind and intermediate legs moderately stout. Pterothorax strongly transverse, wings 

 absent. 



Abdomen oblong-ovate, occupying nearly two-thirds the length of the whole 

 insect, and nearly twice as long as broad, widening to the fourth segment and thence 

 narrowing to the base of the tube. Tube three-quarters the length of the head 

 and about twice as long as broad at base, evenly narrowed from base to tip. Surface 

 of tube reticulate and the basal half (or thereabouts) of other segments similarly 

 reticulated. Terminal bristles almost as loner as the tube ; abdominal hairs lonij, those 

 on segments seven and nine being longer than the tube ; all sub-lateral hairs more than 

 usually long. 



^. The male has the prothorax very considerably swollen, almost globiform, and 

 the fore-legs also much enlarged, the femora being very strongly incrassate and swollen. 

 The fore-tarsus is also armed with a lone and strong tooth, whilst the abdomen is 

 longer and narrower in comparison to its breadth. 



Hai!. Oahu, one J, Waianae Mountains, 2 — 3000 feet, February 1S96 (Perkins, 

 No. 553); one $ and two $s. Mountains near Honolulu, 2 — 3000 feet, July 1900 

 (Nos. 667 and 789), and one $, Konahuanai Ridge, December 1900. 



Nesothrips Kirkaldy. 



Kirkaldy, Proc. Hawaiian Entomological Society, i. p. 102, 1907. 

 "Allied somewhat distantly to Liothrips Uzel. Flat above, convex below. 

 Strongly chitinized, with a shining, polished surface. 



" Head dorsally about as long as the pronotum, a little longer than wide, lateral 



