Mr. W. S. Bagiiall on new Thysanoptera, 221 



distally and 3 ratlier ligliter, the latter inclined to yellowish 

 basally. Fore-wings and cilia yellowish-hrown. 



Head long, about 0'85 as long as hroad and as long as the 

 prothoriix ; widened just behind eyes, cheeks subparallel ; 

 surface transversely striate, and vertex sinjilarly striate. 

 Eyes occup}ing about 0*5 the length of the head, coarsely 

 facetted ; postocular bristles absent ; interocellar setaj situated 

 just behind anterior ocellus, minute. Antennpe twice as long 

 as the head ; joints 3 and 4 fusiform, 5 and G broadly united, 

 and -4 and 5 shortly constricted near base ; style short ; 

 relative lengths of joints as follows : — 11 : 17 : 26 (in- 

 cluding stem) : 22 : 18 : 23 : 3 : 3. Forked trichomes on 

 3 and 4 moderately long. 



Prothorax about 0*7 as long as broad ; bristles at hind 

 angles about 0'4 the length of prothorax. 



Pterothorax large. Legs somewhat stout. Wings reaching 

 to ninth al)dominal segment, pointed ; seta? moderately long, 

 slender. Fore-wing with three set?e in distal half, viz., one 

 just beyond the second third, and two in distal fifth; lower 

 vein with 14-17 setae. 



Abdomen elongate-ovate, pointed at apex. Bristles on 

 segments 9 and 10 long, slender ; 9 with a pair of widely 

 separated dorsal bristles. 



(^ . — Smaller and more slender. 



Tergite 9 with a series of four closely set long setse dis- 

 posed practically in a straight line. Sternites 3-7 each with 

 a small depression, gradually diminishing in size; 3 and 4 

 the largest, elliptical, 5-7 rounded, and 7 the smallest, 

 minute. 



Separated from palli'pennis, Uz., by the long head, riie 

 coloration of antennae and wings, the small depressions in 

 sternites, and the length and disposition of seta on the ninth 

 tergite in the c?. 



Ti/pe. Hope Department of Zoology, University Museum, 

 Oxford. 



Bab. India, Kulhara, Garhwal, 11,700 feet altitude ; in 

 flowers of rhododendron, .'). vi. 10 {A. D. Lnms). 



Physothrips caharatus, sp. n. 



$ . — Size and form much as in P. vulgatissimus (palli- 

 pennis). Colour evidently dark brown, with the fore-tibite 

 and ends of the intermediate and hind-tibiie lighter, and all 



