258 Records of the Indian Museum. [Mer, Vi 
Order THYSANOPTERA. 
Suborder Terebrantia. 
Fam, THRIPIDAE, Hal. 
Sub-fam. PANCHAETOTAHRIPINAE, mihi. 
Gen, PANCHAETOTHRIPS, nov. 
Head short and strongly transverse, posiertorly strongly chitin- 
ized in the form of a ratsed collar; frons depressed; cheeks roundly 
contracted before collar. Eyes prominent and protruding, ocelli 
present. Antenne long, eight-jointed, joints three and four very 
long and slender, five and six broadly united, the style bristle- 
like with the eighth joint much longer than the penultimate. 
Maxillary palpi long and slender, three-jointed. Prothorax strong- 
ly transverse, without prominent bristles. Pterothorax large. 
Wings present, not reticulated; spines on fore-wing exceptionally 
long and strong; fore-vein apparently merged with costa, and hind- 
vein obsolete. 
Abdomen broadly ovate, depressed and margined laterally ; 
tenth segment in the female cylindrical and almost closed ventrally ; 
Ovipositor very long and slender, aimost straight. Anal spines 
exceptionally long and strong. 
Type Panchaetothrips indicus, mihi. 
PANCHAETOTHRIPS INDICUS, sp. nov. 
@ Length 13 mm. Length of last abdominal segment about 
0°25 mm. Colour brown or yellow-brown, the pterothorax, the 
last abdominal segment and often the hind part of body darker; 
sides of pterothorax shaded with grey. Fore-tibize yellow at apex, 
intermediate and hind fermora yellowish basally and apically, and 
the tibiae lighter at knees and shaded thence from brown to clear 
yellow at apex; all tarsi yellow. First antennal joint yellowish- 
brown, second concolorous with head, joints three to five clear 
yellow, almost white, shaded with light brown at tips; apical 
joints light brown. 
Surface of head lightly reticulated, most strongly laterally and 
in the space between each posterior ocellus and eye; transversely 
striated below collar. Strongly transverse, widest across eyes; 
space between eyes almost three times the width of an eye; frons 
slightly produced, separating the basal antennal joints and having 
the apex narrowly emarginate. Forehead depressed from about a 
line drawn across the anterior fifth of the eyes; cheeks slightly 
rounded and thence strongly narrowed basally to collar which is 
apparently raised laterally and dorsally. Eyes large, prominent 
and very coarsely facetted ; ocelli rather large, oviform; anterior 
