208 Mr. K. S. Bagnall on new Thysanoptera. 



intermediate antennal segments is not well-defined as in 

 fuUginosus. 



Distribution. EuROrE (Gralicia and England). 



Haplothrips victoriensis, sp. n. 



? .—Length 1*7 to 19 rani. 



Colour deep black-brown, fore-tibia? brownish-yellow 

 shading to yellow distally ; hind and intermediate tarsi brown, 

 tore-tarsi yellow ; basal antennal segments yellow, very 

 lightly touched with grey-brown ; 4 yellowish-grey brown 

 with basal third yellow ; 5 a slightly deeper brown with 

 basal fourth yellowish ; 6 to 8 brown (lighter than basal 

 joinis) with extreme base of 6 in some examples feebly 

 lighter. Wings fumate as in fuUginosus. 



Head much as in fuUginosus, but shorter and broader, ' 

 approximately as long as or only slightly longer than broad, 

 cheeks very faintly rounded, slightly convergent posteriorly, 

 minutely and sparsely setose ; eyes occupying about 0'35 the 

 length of head ; postocular bristles long, stout, dilated 

 apically. Antenna about twice as long as the head; seg- 

 ment 3 narrow, 4 large, broadest of all; relative lengths of 

 segments 3 to 8 approximately as follows : — 50 : 55 : 47 : 44 : 

 40 : 22. Pronotum about O'S the length of head and twice 

 as broad as long ; setse stout, dilated apically, of the two at 

 each posterior angle the outer is the longer, being about 0"55 

 as long as the pronotum ; other pronotal setae shorter. Fore- 

 wings with 11 (10-12) duplicated cilia. Fore-femora 

 incrassate, fore-tarsus unarmed. Pterothorax broad, approxi- 

 mately as long as broad. Abdomen a little broader than the 

 pterothorax, gradually narrowing to segment 7 and thence 

 more sharply to base of tube. Tube 0*8 as long as the head, 

 more than half as wide at tip as at base and twice as long- 

 as wide at base. Bristles on segment 9 long, not as leng as 

 tube, slender, colourless ; apical bristles as long as tube, 

 stouter than those on 9, fuscous, but losing colour distally. 



J . — Smaller, more slender ; head a little longer ; fore- 

 legs stouter and fore-tarsus armed with a short broadly seated 

 tooth. 



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



Hob. Australia, in the neighbourhood of Healesville, 



