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Mr. R. S. Bagnall on new Thynanoptera. 219 



PhysotJirips seticollis (Bagnall). 



Teentofhrips seticollis, Bagnall, 1915, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Iliat. ser. 8, xv. 

 p. 591. 



This species cannot l)e referred to the genu.s Ticniot/n-ips 

 as exemplified by inconseqiiens, primul(je, and major, sp. n. 



b. Funtumi(v group. 



Pht/fiothrips kelli/anus, sp. n. 



? .—Length I'G to 1-8 mm. 



Very like P.funtumicB, Bagn. 



Dark chestnut-brown, anteinue with the distal constricted 

 parts of joints '?> and 4 colourless; fore-tiI)iae and all tarsi 

 yellow. Fore-wings yellowish-brown, basally lighter ; hind- 

 wings also fumate, with cilia" and median vein dark. 



Head a little broader than long, eyes setose ; interocellar 

 setaj long. Relative lengths of antennal joints 3 to 8 as 

 follows :— 27 : 27 : 17 : 26 : 4 : 6. 



Prothorax as long as or very slightly longer than head ; 

 sefaj at hind angles long, but not stout, and one rather long 

 pair in the postero-marginal series. Setje on fore-wing long, 

 npper vein with two in distal half near extreme end and 

 3 + 3 near base. 



Apical abdominal bristles long. 



(^ . — Length about 1"2 mm., slender. 



Each of the sternites 3 to 7 with numerous minute, 

 roundish, irregular, pale depressions, those at angles, espe- 

 cially the anterior, slightly larger. Tergite 9 with a series 

 of short spines in a line near posterior margin. 



Colour of antennae as in ? ; joint 6 abnormally long; 

 relative lengths of joints 3 to 8 as follows : — 26 : 25 : 13 : 

 30 : 3 : 4'0. 



Type. Hope Department §^ Zoology, University Museum, 

 Oxford. 



IJah. N. Queensland, Brandon, ,$ and ? on a compo- 

 site flower {? Ilelianthiis sp.), 16. x. 14; Brisbane, numerous 

 ? ? and 1 (J on Acokeanthera spectahilis (a South-African 

 ])lant), in the Botanic Gardens, 23. x. 14. 



Victoria, Ballarat, 1 (^ on Ilypochceris radicata, 18. i. 15. 



One o£ the many interesting species discovered by 

 Mr. Reg. Kelly, alter whon\ 1 tind pleasure in naming it. 



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