NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF THYSANOPTERA 1 99 



Fore-tarsal tooth minute. Abdomen flat and linear; five times 

 the length of head and only about one and one-eighth as 

 broad as the prothorax ; slightly widened to the third segment 

 from base, and smoothly narrowed from the sixth segment to 

 the ninth, which is very small. Tube about one-half the 

 length of head. Terminal hairs and spines almost as in 

 L. albomacvlata. 



Type — Paris Museum. 



Hab. — Two specimens, Sardilla, Grande Canarie (^Ch. 

 Alluaud, 1900). 



Genus EURYNOTHRIPS* nov. 



Head as long as or only slightly longer than width at base. 

 Antennae about twice the length of head. Month-cone long 

 and slender, longer than breadth at base, but not nearly 

 reaching base of presternum. 



Prothorax in the form of a large expanded hood, between 

 three and four times the width of head, and more than twice 

 as long ; broadest behind the mid-line, and rapidly and evenly 

 narrowed to base of head. Pterothorax and abdomen narrower 

 than prothorax. Fore-legs enlarged in both sexes and tarsi 

 strongly armed. Wings present. 



Species medium sized. 



Type — Enrynothrips magnicollis mihi. 



The species may be tabulated as follows : — 



I. Head not strongly constricted behind eyes ; prothorax more 

 depressed, only slightly wider than mesothorax, and without 

 teeth at lateral angles. magnicollis sp. nov. 



II. ^^rt(/ strongly constricted behind eyes ; //7:'^/zcr(7x more convex, 

 decidedly wider than mesothorax, and with a minute tooth at 

 each lateral angle. denticoUis sp. nov. 



Eurynothrips magnicollis sp. n. (PI. VI., figs. 13, 14). 



Length 3-2 mm.; length of prothorax '825 mm.; breadth 

 of prothorax '665 mm.; breadth of mesothorax •6125 mm. 



Cohmr dark chestnut brown ; antennae, all tarsi, fore-tibiae, 

 and apices of fore-femora testaceous yellow. 



* Euryno- (Eurynoto-) =broad-backed. 



