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



Type. In British MiHonm of Natural History (Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology), 1 $ described Iron) an unmounted 

 spirit-specimen. 



Hob. Gold Coast, Aburi, from the foliage of Cacao, 1 $ , 

 Nov. 12th, 1915 (W. H. Patterson). Reg. no. 275, Imp. 

 Bur. Eut. no. 103. 



Genus Kleothrips, Schmutz. 



Ekothrips, 1913 (July), K. Akad. Wiss. Wien. niath.-naturw. Kl. 



czxii. p. 1057. 

 Dracotlirips, 1914 (Mar. 1), Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist. ser. 8, xiii. p. 290. 



Genus Eidothrips, nov. 



Species of moderate size. 



Head long, at least 2*5 times as long as broad, feebly and 

 gently narrowed behind eyes and thence swollen towards 

 base ; eyes finely facetted; head only slightly produced 

 beyond eyes for reception of antenna;, which are very slender 

 and more than twice as' long as the head. Prothorax small, 

 simple in both sexes. Pterothorax largish, broader than the 

 abdomen. Wings with median vein reaching beyond 

 middle ; fore-wings slightly broadened before apex, fringe 

 close, not long, and of rather even length, with numerous 

 duplicated cilia at the lower margin near apex. Femora, 

 tibiae, and tarsi of front legs unarmed in both sexes. Tube 

 at least 1*5 times as long as the head. 



cj . — Abdominal segment 5 with a posteriorly directed 

 pair of lateral curved horn-like processes; 6 with a shorter 

 straight pair situated near the posterior third of segment ; 9 

 with posterior angles produced into spine-set tubercles. Tube, 

 in $ only, with surface scabrous or coarsely aciculate, ex- 

 cepting the distal fourth. 



Type. Eidothrips alluaudi, pp. n. 



Eidothrips alluaudi, sp. n. 



Length 5 "4 to 6'0 mm. 



With the characters of the genus. 



Colour dark chestnut-brown, antenna! segment 3 yellow 

 with basal sixth brown, and 4 also yellow lightly shaded with 

 brown basally, both tinged with brown at apices ; veins of 

 wings, scale, and upper margin at base brown, otherwise clear 



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