Mr. R. S. Bagnall 07i new Thysanoptera. 219 



Physothrips seticollis (Bagnall). 



Tceniothrips seticollis, Bagnall, 1915, Ana, & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, xv. 

 p. 591. 



This species cannot be referred to the genus Tceniothrips 

 as exemplified by inconsequens, primulce, and major, sp. n. 



b. Funtumice group. 



Physothrips kellyanus, sp. n. 



? . — Length 1*6 to 1*8 mm. 



Very like P. funtumice, Bagn. 



Dark chestnut-brown, antennae with the distal constricted 

 parts of joints 3 and 4 colourless; fore-tibiae and all tarsi 

 yellow. Fore-wings yellowish-brown, basally lighter ; hind- 

 wings also fumate, with cilise and median vein dark. 



Head a little broader than long, eyes setose ; interocellar 

 setge long. Relative lengths of aatennal joints 3 to 8 as 

 follows :— 27 : 27 : 17 : 26 : 4 : 6. 



Prothorax as long as or very slightly longer than head ; 

 setse at hind angles long, but not stout, and one rather long 

 pair in the postero-marginal series. Setse on fore-wing long, 

 upper vein with two in distal half near extreme end and 

 3 + 3 near base. 



Apical abdominal bristles long. 



c? . — Length about 1*2 mm., slender. 



Each of the sternites 3 to 7 with numerous minute, 

 roundish, irregular, pale depressions, those at angles, espe- 

 cially the anterior, slightly larger. Tergite 9 with a series 

 of short spines in a line near posterior margin. 



Colour of antennae as in ? ; joint 6 abuormally long ; 

 relative lengths of joints 3 to 8 as follows : — 26 : 25 : 13 : 

 36 : 3 : 4-5. 



Type. Hope Department of Zoology, University Museum, 

 Oxford. 



Hah. N. Queensland, Brandon, (^ and ? on a compo- 

 site flower (? Helianthus sp.), 16. x. 14; Brisbane, numerous 

 $ ? and 1 c? on Acokeantkera speclabilis (a South-African 

 plant), in the Botanic Gardens, 23. x. 14. 



Victoria, Ballarat, 1 ^ on Hypochceris radicata, 18. i. 15. 



One of the many interesting species discovered by 

 Mr. Reg. Kelly, after whom I tind pleasure in naming it. 



