148 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Described fioni two inales talst'ii by sweeping in forest at Nelson, N.Q., August 

 7 iuul November o-G, 1013, by Mr. A. A. Girault. 



Named after the late M. .Andre \'uillet, formerly of the Entomological Station 

 at Paris, PVance, who was one of the most promising students of the 'I'hysanoptera. 



ADIAPHOROTHRIPS GIRAULTI sp. nov. 



J/rt/e hriacropteraus). — Length about 3-5 mm. Colour dark blackish brown, 

 with tarsi, knees, part of fore tibia?, and at least the basal poitions of antennal seg- 

 ments 3-5 (sometimes 3-6), yellow ; wings dear, or yellowish toward base. 



Head 1-6 times as long as wide, depressed, broadest across eyes ; cheeks 

 narrowed a litth; beliind eyes, roundlj' broadened at basal tliird, and with a distinct 

 constriction near base, behind which they are again broadened, surface set with about 

 eight strong parallel lateral bristles, dor.'sal and lateral surfaces with fine close stria,' 

 which become reticulate on posterior portion of occiput ; vertex not produced ; post- 

 ocular bristles pointed, longer than eyes. Eyes about one-fourth as long as head and 

 two-thirds as wide as their inlerval, ventral extent slightly less than dorsal. Ocelli 

 widelj" sejmrated, the anterior ocellus on a line with the jjosterior margin of lirst 

 antennal segment ; jjosterior ocelU contiguous to inner margins of eyes. .Antennae 

 slender, about 1-85 times the length of head ; segments 3 and J subccpial in length, 

 5 slightly shorter ; sense-cones short and inconspicuous ; formula : 3, 1-1 ; 4, 2-2 ; 

 5, 1-1+ 1 ; 6, 1-0 + 1 ■ 7 with one on dorsum near apex ; segments 1, 2, 7, and 8 dark 

 blackish brown ; 3 and 4 (sometimes only 3) yellow ; 5 yellow at base, dark brown 

 beyond ; U dark brown or with jiedicel yellow. Mouth-coue shorter than width at base, 

 semicircularly rounded at ape's. 



Prothorax about ()-.")7 as long as head and (inclusive of coxae) alwnit 2-4 times 

 as wide as long; pronotuin smooth, with stiong metlian thickening, and with the 

 anterior border emarginate and thickenetl ; all usual Ijristles present, pointed, the 

 two posterior pairs about as long as postoculars. others small. Fore legs enlarged ; 

 fore femora with a few stout s|)ines on inner surface ai\d on outer basal margin ; fore 

 tarsi with a very large hooked tooth which is nearly as long as tarsus. Wings long> 

 broad, of equal width throughout, and with al.iout 42 accessory haiis on posterior 

 margin. 



-Vbdomen large, bioad ; tube nearly as long as head antl about three times as 

 long as its basal width, sides straight. Abdominal bristles long, pointed, pale, these 

 at ajK'X of segment '.( about as long as tube ; t(^rniinal bristles brown, llu'ce-fourths 

 the length of tube. 



Measurements ot holotype : — Length 3-47 nun. ; head, Icngtii 0-.")2() nun., width 

 0-328 mm. ; prothorax, length 0-300 nun., width (inclusive of coxa?) 0-732 mm. ; 

 jitcrothorax, width 0-7'.)2 mm. ; abdonu^i, width ()-87() mm. ; t ubc, length 0-4K() mm., 

 width at base 0-102 mm., at apex 0-075 mm. 



