from the Seychelles Islands and Rodrigues. 267 
genus, yellowish, and only 0°7 mm. long. I have retained 
the preparation for future study. 
Loc. Srycuevwes. Silhouette: forest above Mare aux 
Cochons, over 1000 feet, 2. ix. 1908, 1 ¢. 
Suborber TUBULIFERA. 
Family Phleothripide. 
Genus Haptorureiprs, Serv. 
5. Haplothrips mahensis, sp. n. 
(Pl. VI. figs. 12, 13.) 
2? —Length approximately 1:5 mm. 
Colour dark grey-brown ; fore-tibiz and fore-tarsi yel- 
lowish. Intermediate antennal joints 3-6 yellow, 6 lightly 
touched with grey-brown, and 4 and 5 with grey ; 7 and 8 
grey-brown. Wings clear except for scale and small basal 
patch of fore-wing light grey-brown. 
Head only as long as broad, cheeks very faintly arcuate, 
furnished with a few minute sete. Eyes finely facetted, 
occupying about 0°4 the dorsal length of the head ; space 
between them equal to, or a little more than, the breadth 
of one of them. Postocular bristles apparently about the 
length of eye, dilated at apex. Antenna very similar to 
H. karnyi, Bagn., of usual type; segment 4 broader than 3 
and 3 broader than 5 or 6, these latter joints being roughly 
ovate. 
Pronotum 0°7 the length of the head and 1°8 times as 
broad as long; all set# present, long, dilated at apex; the 
mid-lateral pair and those at anterior angles as long as 
the postocular pair; the postero-marginal pairs are pre- 
sumably appreciably longer, but cannot be seen in the 
available material, excepting in one example where one of 
the outer pair is present, projected at an angle and apparently 
about 0°6 the median length of the pronotum. Legs normal, 
fore-femora incrassate and fore-tarsus armed with a minute 
tooth in addition to the retractile claw of the second seg- 
ment. Wings normal, 6-8 duplicated cilia (6 and 8 in one 
and 7 and 8 in another specimen). 
Abdomen elongate, as broad as the pterothorax, roundly 
narrowed from base of segment 8 to base of tube. Tube 
short and stout, about 0°6 the length of the head and not 
quite 0°6 as broad at base as long; evenly narrowed to apex, 
