208 Mr. R. S. Bagnall on new Thysanoptera, 



intermediate antennal segments is not well-defined as in 

 fuliginosus. 



Distribution. Eukope (Galicia and England). 



UapJothrips victor iensis, sp. n. 



? .—Length 1*7 to 1-9 mm. 



Colour deep black-brown, fore-tibia? brownish-yellow 

 shading to yellow distally ; hind and intermediate tarsi brown, 

 fore-tarsi yellow ; basal antennal segments yellow, very 

 lightly touched with grey-brown ; 4 yellowish-grey brown 

 with basal third yellow ; 5 a slightly deeper brown with 

 basal fourth yellowish ; 6 to 8 brown (lighter than basal 

 joints) with extreme base of 6 in some examples feebly 

 lighter. Wings fumate as in fuliginosus . 



Head much as in fuliginosus, but shorter and broader, 

 approximately as long as or only slightly longer than broad, 

 cheeks very faintly rounded, slightly convergent posteriorly, 

 minutely and sparsely setose ; eyes occupying about 0'35 the 

 length of head ; postoeular bristles long, stout, dilated 

 apically. Antenna about twice as long as the head; seg- 

 ment 3 narrow, 4 large, broadest of all; relative lengths of 

 segments 3 to 8 approximately as follows : — 50 : 55 : 47 : 44 : 

 40 : 22. Pronotum about 0*8 the length of head and twice 

 as broad as long ; setae stout, dilated apically, of the two at 

 each posterior angle the outer is the longer, being about 0*55 

 as long as the pronotum ; other pronotal seta; shorter. Fore- 

 wings with 11 (10-12) duplicated cilia. Fore-femora 

 incrassate, fore-tarsus unarmed. Pterothorax broad, approxi- 

 mately as long as broad. Abdomen a little broader than the 

 pterothorax, gradually narrowing to segment 7 and thence 

 more sharply to base of tube. Tube 0'8 as long as the head, 

 more than half as wide at tip as at base and twico as long 

 as wide at ba.se. Bristles on segment 9 long, not as long as 

 tube, slender, colourless ; apical bristles as long as tube, 

 stouter than those on 9, fuscous, but losing colour distally. 



cJ. — Smaller, more slender; head a little longer; fore- 

 legs stouter and fore-tarsus armed with a short broadly seated 

 tooth. 



Type. In Coll. Bagnall, University Museum, Oxford. 



.Hub. Australia, in the neighbourhood of Healesville, 



