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jight grey-brown shading to yellow-brown at apex of 

 2nd joint. 



Head tranverse, cheeks slightly widened and set with 

 several short setaa behind eyes. Eyes coarsely facetted and 

 minutely setose. Inter-ocellar bristles very long. 



Pronotuni transverse ; bristles at hind angle long and 

 stout. Wings long, reaching to apex of abdomen. Setae of 

 fore-wings long, those of costa very long, numbering 2Q ; 

 fore- vein 3 + 16 and lower vein 15. 



Abdominal segment 10 cylindrical, open above with a pair 

 of very stout horn-like dorsal spines at apex, and a pair of 

 lateral apical bristles longer than the segment bearing them. 

 Posterior bristles of 9 placed somewhat back, the lateral pairs 

 long, longer than or as long as the segments 9 and 10 to- 

 gether, an inner dorsal pair about 0'15 the length of the 

 longer ones. A short dorsal pair, widely spaced. 



Hab. German East Africa, Alpine prairies around Bis- 

 marckhiigel, altitude about 2700 metres, 1 $ , April 1912 

 (AUuaud et Jeanne!, no. 70). 



Suborder Tubulifera. 



Family Phlceothripidae. 



Genus Ilaplothrips. 



a. Fore-wings loith duplicated cilia, slender, clouded. 



Ilaplothrips pictipes, sp. n. 



¥ . — Length 1*2 mm. to 1*3 mm,, breadth of mesothorax 

 c. 0*28 mm. 



Colour dull chestnut-brown, tube darker basal ly ; fore- 

 femora yellowish distally ; all tibiae light yellow, more or less 

 shaded with grey-brown except the base of intermediate pair 

 and the basal two-fifths of the hind pair ; the shaded part 

 usually flecked with darker brown on the outer margin of the 

 tibia 3 . Antennae brown, joint 3 yellow touched with lio-ht 

 grey-brown in the distal half, 4 yellowish or greyish-yellow 

 distally and basally. Wings clouded, clear basal ly, darkest 

 before middle and lighter distally. 



Head about as broad as long and 1*25 times as long as the 

 pronotum; cheeks distinctly narrowed near base; eyes occu- 

 pying about 0'38 the length of the head. Ocelli large, placed 

 on a swelling with a strong hypodermal pigmentation ; front 

 one directed forwards, hind pair placed above a line drawn 

 across the centre of the eyes ; postocular bristles moderately 



