146 MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Measurements of holotype : — Length 1-38 mm. ; head, length 0-190 mm., width 

 0-221 mm. ; prothoiax, length 0-14-1 mm., width (inclusive of coxse) 0-290 mm. ; 

 pt«rothorax, width 0-312 mm. ; abdomen, width 0-468 mm. ; tube, length 0-145 mm., 

 width at base 0-084 mm., at apex 0-042 mm. 



Total length of antenna, 0-429 mm. 



31ale {apterous). — Very similar to female in colour ami structure, but with the 

 fore tarsus strongly toothed and the pronotuin with a short, dark, median thickening. 



Measurements of allot3'pe : — Length 1-03 mm. ; head, length 0-150 mm., width 

 0-181 mm. ; prothorax, length 0-130 mm., width (inclusive of coxa?) 0-240 mm. ; 

 pterothorax, width 0-228 mm. ; abdomen, width 0-312 nun. ; tube, length. 0-108 mm., 

 width at base 0-069 mm., at apex 0-034 mm. 



Antemial segments : 1 2 



Length (/it) 36 45 



Width (fi) 36 31 



Total length of antenna, 0-335 mm. 



Described from six females and one male, all taken by Mr. A. A. Girault by 

 sweeping in forest, at Proserpine, N.Q. (type locahty), November 2 and 3, 1912 ; at 

 Nelson, N.Q., May 29, 1913, and at Pentland, N.Q., January 8, 1913. 



Easily known from dc/dipes, 'jilvipes, and hiculor, its closest allies, by its small 

 .size, short head, and colour. 



PHAULOTHRIPS gen. nov. 



(i^aiJAoj, good-for-nothing ; '?/)[)/', a wood- worm). 



Head elongate, rectangular, much longer than wide, and iwWy twice as long as 

 median dorsal length of pronotum, slightly elevated along posterior |)orti()n of metlian 

 line ; vertex not jiroduced, though overhanging, with a pair of prominent forwardly 

 directed bristles lateral of median ocellus ; cheeks straight and parallel, with a pair 

 of long lateral bristles behind eyes ; postocular bristles long. Antenire slender, 

 eight-segmented, segments 4-7 (particularly 5 and (i) juolonged on ventral surface at 

 apex ; segment 3 longest ; 7 and 8 not closely united. Eyes small, less than one-fourth 

 as long as head. Anterior ocellus directed forward and upward. Mouth-cone not as 

 long as width at base, .semicircular at apex, about attaining middle of prostenunn. 

 Prothorax more than two and one-half times as wide across coxai as median length of " 

 dorsum ; anterior margin of pronotum deeply, roundly emarginate and somewhat 

 thickened; the two pairs of bristles at po.sterior anglcw long, others minute. Eoro 

 tarsi (at least in llie male) stron^rly armed. Wiiif^'s long, broad, not narrow(^d at middle. 

 Abdomen broad and heavy. 'J'lihc much shorter llian head, constricted at apex. 



