220 Mr. R. S. Bagnall on new ThyaanopterA. 



but for a faint yellowish tinge near margins. Spines at 

 posterior margin of abdominal segment 9 clear yellow. 

 Relative lengths of antennal segments 3 to 8 approximately 

 as follows :— 45 : 29 : 23 : 18 : 8 : 7. 



Ti/pe. In Coll. Alluaud et Jeannel. 



IJab. Uganda, Kijabe, situated on the Uganda Railway 

 in the forest of the Kikuyu escarpment, Dec. 1911 (Alluaud 

 et Jeannel). 



Genus KRINOTHRIPS, nov. 



Species of moderate size. 



Agreeing with Eidothrips, gen. nov.; head more noticeably 

 narrowed behind eyes and tube less than 1*5 times as long as 

 the. head, similar in both sexes. 



<J . — Abdominal segment 5 simple, 6 with a posteriorly 

 directed pair of lateral, curved, horn-like processes, 7 swollen 

 and laterally tuberculate-dentate ; 8 irregularly swollen and 9 

 simple. Tube practically smooth, as in ? . 



Type. Krinothrips divergens, sp. n. 



Krinothrips divergens, sp. n. 



Length about 7*0 mm. 



With the characters of the genus. 



Fi-. 4. 



Krinothrips divergens, gen. et sp. n., S ■ Dorsal view of abdominal 

 segments 6-8, outline onty. 



Colour dark chestnut-brown ; tarsi, extreme apex of fore- 

 tibia, intermediate tibia distally, and hind tibia in distal half 



