292 Mr. H. S. Bagnall on new Thysanoptera. 



tlie length of liead) ; relative lengtlis of joints 1 to 5 : — 

 7 : 10 : 30 : 24 : 21. 



Prothorax transverse, twice as broad as long ; all setfB 

 present, slightly knobbed, those at hind angles longest, 

 almost 0'5 as long as the prothorax. Pterothorax a little 

 broader than long, wings absent. First pair of legs rather 

 short and somewhat stout ; simple. Intermediate also short 

 and somewhat stout ; hind pair longer and more slender, 

 femur 1'5 times the length of intermediate femur, broadest 

 at distal third ; tibia correspondingly long. 



Side of abdomen gently arched to sixth segment, which is 

 armed with a pair of short and comparatively stout, out- 

 wardly curved lateral processes and reaching slightly beyond 

 the apex of segment ; 7 evenly narrowing a})ically ; 8 about 

 as broad across apex as across base, with a pair of mid- 

 lateral tubercles faintly suggested. 



1 2 



Siphonothrips hrevis, sp. n., c? • 

 1. Abdominal segments G to 8. 



2. Tube. 



Tube broadest at basal fourth, thence sharply narrowed, 

 and continued to basal fifth or tliereabouts, with the sides 

 practically parallel, basal fifth sharply narrowed ; viewed 

 laterally the tube is sharply curved upwards at or about the 

 basal third, so that the distal two-thirds is on a higher level 

 than the base. Surface si)arsely furnished with moderately 

 short and very delicate hairs. Terminal bristles we:ik, only 

 about one-third the length of the tube, light-coloured. 

 Abdominal bristles also weak, those on 7 and 8 directed 

 outwardly. 



Ti/pe. In IIo])c Collections, University Museum, Oxford. 



JJab. One male, coll. Prof. J. iSahlberg, Narenta. 



Family Phlccothripidae. 

 Liothrips micrurtis, sp. n. 



? , — Uniformly dark brown, including 

 L. major, lUiffa. Aiit(!iiiia3 with second 

 distaily and i>-.^> lemon-yellow, 4 and 



foi'e-tibiffi, as in 



joint yellowish 



5 deepen in<r to 



