320 Mr. R. S. Bagnall on new Thijsanoplera. 



cylindrical, divided dorsally, about 0"7 the length of head and 

 0*5 the length of segment 9. Bristles on 9 only about 07 

 the length of 10 ; a stoutish bristle on each side of the longi- 

 tudinal division of segment 10 near apex, 0*8 the length of 

 the segment. 



Larvce yellow ; head, pronotal plates, and last two abdo- 

 minal segments dark greyish-brown ; legs dirty greyish- 

 yellow to brown. 



Type. British Museum of Natural History. 



Hah. Ceylon, Peradeniya, on leaves of Allamanda, 

 20. 2. 14, A. Ruiherford (A. R. no. 3673, Ent. Res. Comm. 

 no. 61), also 27. 3. 14 (no. 83). 



This species difEers from the type of the genus, D. hooheri^ 

 Hood, in the explanate lateral margins of head, the broader 

 and complete wing-like lateral explanations of prothorax, 

 the series of pronotal setoe, and the abnormally strong spines 

 of the fore-wing, which in hooheri are few and inconspicuous. 

 The forms and lengths of abdominal segments 9 and 10 in the 

 two species also differ markedly. 



Genus Rhipiphorothrips, Morgan. 



JRhipiphoi-ot/i)-ips, Morgan, Proc. U.S. Museum, vol. xlvi. p. 17 



(August 28, 1913). 

 Setithrips, Baguall (n6c Marchal), Ann. & Mag, Nat. Hist. ser. 8, 



vol. xii. (Sept. 1, lUlSj. 



A comparison between Rhipiphorothrips pulchellus, Morgan, 

 from Banyan, Philippine Islands, and mj R. hicolor from 

 Vine, Ceylon, described within a few days of each other, will 

 be interesting. If not one and the same species, thej are at 

 least very closely related. 



Suborder TuBULlFERA. 



Family Ecacanthothripidae. 



Ecacanthothrips hryanti, sp. n, 



$ . — Very like sanguineus and steinskyi, all tibiae and tarsi 

 yellow in one specimen, in another hind and intermediate 

 tibise brownish. Coloration of antennae as in sanguineus. 

 Postocular bristles present, and also a somewhat similar 

 subgenal bristle behind each eye. Fore-femur with basal 

 tooth long and strong, reddisli distally ; sparingly setose, the 

 outer margin with a Iringe of several longer and shorter hairs. 



