200 RICHARD S. BAGNALL.— NEW VINE THRIPS FROM CYPRUS. 



tinged with grey distally, and 8 light grey-brown. Tube somewhat hghter brown in 

 apical half. Wings clear, cilia grey-brown. 



Head 1*2 times as long as broad across hind margin of eyes and more than twice 

 as long as the pronotum ; cheeks straight, parallel or slightly divergent posteriorly. 

 Eyes small, finely facetted, occupying laterally about one-fourth the length of head. 

 Vertex roundly raised, with the fore ocellus at apex, directed forwards. Post-ocular 

 bristles set well back, blunt. Mouth-cone pointed, reaching across prosternum. 

 Antennae twice as long as the head ; relative lengths and breadths of joints 3-8 

 as follows : — ■ 



70 : 64 : 52 : 50 : 44 : 13 

 22 : 25 : 22 : 22 : 20 : 6, 

 3 and 4 claviform, 5 and 6 fusiform, 7 weakly fusiform, inclined to be cylindrical, 

 8 obpyriform. 



Pronotum strongly transverse, about 2*5 times as broad as long ; all setae present, 

 blunt, those at posterior angles and postero-marginal pair longest, 0*7 to 0"8 the 

 length of pronotum ; the mid lateral pair longer than those on anterior margin. 

 Pterothorax large, quadrate ; wings reaching to abdominal segment 8 and fore- 

 wing with about 13 duplicated cilia. Legs slender, fore tarsus unarmed. 



Abdomen elongate- ovate, broader than the pterothorax, broadest at segment 5 

 and thence gently narrowing to 9. Tube a httle more than 0'8 the length of head, 

 about 1'7 times as wide at base as apex, about 2*4 times as long as wide at base ; 

 terminal hairs slender, pale, about 0*6 the length of tube. Abdominal bristles 

 almost colourless to pale yellow ; those on 9 slender, about 08 the length of tube ; 

 a longish pair on 7. 



Cyprus (Z. G. Solomides). 



