Mr. R. S. Bagnall on new Thysanoptera. 211 



head. Antenna? at least 1'8 times as long as the head ; 

 relative lengths of segments 3 to 8 approximately as follows : — 

 46 : 50 : 42 : 39 : 37 : 22. Prothorax transverse, about 23 

 times as broad as long ; all setae present, blunt, those on 

 posterior margins about 0*4 the length of pronotum. Fore- 

 femora incrassate ; fore-tarsus unarmed. Fore-wings very 

 narrow from about basal third and median constriction scarcely 

 apparent; lower margin with 8 (7-9) duplicated cilia. 



Abdomen as broad or scarcely as broad as the pterothorax, 

 gradually tapering to tube ; tube about 0'63 as long as head, 

 0"5 as broad at base as long, and 0'55 as broad at tip as at 

 base; sides evenly converging and no constriction at apex. 

 Bristles at apex of tube distinctly longer than tube. 



cJ . — Smaller, body more slender. Fore-femora not 

 strongly incrassate and tarsal tooth minute. 



Type. British Museum of Natural History (Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology). 



Hah. India, Ringtong, T.E., Darjiling Dist., taken in 

 numbers on tea-bushes [iieg. 286, I.B.E. 120) and on rose 

 (Reg. 287, I.B.E. 121), 14. vi. 1916, by Mr. E. A.Andrews 

 (of the India Tea Association). 



Hindsiania melaleuca, Bagnall. 



Hindsiania melaleuca, Bagnall, 1911, Ent. Mouth. Mag. ser. 2, xxi. 



p. 61. 

 Zygothrips bicolor, Hood & "Williams, 1915, Journ. Xew York Ent. 



fcjoc. xxiii. p. 126. 



I found my original example of II. melaleuca in the 

 Botanic Gardens, Copenhagen, and am interested to rind that 

 the Zygothrips bicolor of Hood & Williams, taken by Williams 

 in Florida, is referable to the same species. 



Podothrips duplicatusj sp. n. 



? . — Length about 1*2 mm. 



Like llaplothrips aculeatus in general appearance. 



Colour brown, tube darker basally; fore-tibia pale yellow, 

 shaded along inner and outer margins with grey-brown ; hind 

 and intermediate tibiae also pale yellow, lightly shaded with 

 grey-brown medianly ; all tarsi yellowish, with brown fleck 

 distally. Antennal joints 1 and 2 concolorous with head : 



