Mr. H. S. Bagnall on new Thysanoptera. 207 



distally and basally, the former with pedicel. Relative 

 Lengths of se_ approximately as follows : — 29 : 40 : 78 : 



76 : 17 : (14 : 15 : 11*. Pronotura with sides rounded, not 

 Btrongly transverse (about L'3 times as broad as long) ; 

 bristles at anterior angles som what prominent, about 0*2 the 

 length of the pronotura; those at posterior angles only 

 moderately long and strong, the inner pair longer than the 

 outer and about 0"4 the length of the pronotum. Fore-legs 

 more than usually long, ra t. Wings long, moder- 



ately slender; the fore pair with seta* as follows : c<»r,i 23- 

 26; upper vein 4 (3) + 7-10, running into the distal half, 

 with 2 (3) in distal fifth : lower vein with 1-4-16. Abdomen 

 long and slender. Tergite 9 with a series of two pa! 

 minute setse, the outer pair being on a higher plane and a 

 little longer than the inner ; the bristle at posterior arrjj - 

 rather long, somewhat variable, strong, \\ ith a shorter stronger 

 spine at each angle immediately within. 



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



Hab. India, Pusa, Bengal, numerous J J 1 on lucerne, 

 Feb. 1906 (//. Maxwell L^jruy). 



This striking species, on discovery of the ? , may have to 

 be removed from the genus Physothrips. 



Suborder T U B U L I Y E R A. 

 Family Phloeothripidse. 



Haplothrips group. 

 a. Wings cloud'.?. 



II xplothrips fuliginosua (Scliille). 



Cryptothvips{i\c) fuliyinosa, Scliille, 1910, Acad. Litt. Cracov. xlr, 



p. 7. 

 Hajiluf.hrips obscxriijennis, Bagnall, 1913, Ent. Month. Mag. ser. 'J, 



xxiv. p. 204. 



I have fortunately had the opportunity of examining 

 co-types of iSchille's Cryptothrii>s fuliginosus, and find that it 

 cannot be referred to the genus Cryptothrtps or any allied 

 genus — that, in fact, it is a typical Haplotkrtps, and identical 

 with the species I described under the name of obscuripennis. 



Hood's //. nubilipennis comes very near to this species ; 

 it was described from a single example, and the colour of the 



