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at apex, and hind tibiae brown except the extreme base and 

 distal third which are yellow. Antennse more than twice as 

 long as the head ; relative lengths of joints 3 to 8 as follows : — 

 61 : 50 : 45 : 33 : 16 : 14. 



Abdominal segment 6 furnished with a pair of lateral 

 spine-like tubiform processes at anterior angles, slightly out- 

 wardly directed but scarcely curved, and not quite reaching 

 the line of the posterior margin ; 8 with a pair of lateral 

 tooth-like processes near posterior angles. 



Tube about 1'5 times as long as head, stout near base but 

 sharply constricted in the first fourth ; more strongly setose 

 (and with longer setaj) than in the ? . Terminal hairs 

 short. 



Hah. Japan, Kobe, 1 ? , 1912 ; I S , April 1915, the 

 latter E,eg. no. 139 {J. E. A. Lewis). 



Family Phloeotliripidae s. 1. 

 a. Docessissophothrips group. 



Docessissopkotkrips longiceps, sp. n. 



$ . — Forma aptera. Length about 5*5 mm. 

 Colour deej) blackish-brown, second antennal joint reddish- 

 brown (rest of antennse broken off in the unique specimen) ; 

 all tibiaj orange-yellow, tarsi clouded with brown. 



Fiff. 3. 



Head and protliorax of Docessissophothrips longiceps, sp. u. 

 A. Viewed dorsally. B. Viewed laterally. 



Head more than 4*5 times as long as the prothorax and 

 2*7 times as long as broad at middle ; dorsum gently arched 

 in profile. Eyes small, finely facetted, not prominent; post- 

 ocular bristle apparently absent. 



Fore-margin of prothorax strongly emarginate ; bristles 

 moderately long, colourless. Pterothorax short; wings 

 absent. 



