136 L. A. MOUND 



Malacothrips lewisi (Bagnall) 



Trichothrips lewisi Bagnall, 1914b : 30-31. 

 Malacothrips lewisi (Bagnall) ; Bagnall, 1924k : 635. 



The mountant in which the unique holotype was prepared has turned black and 

 the specimen is barely visible. The slide bears the following data ; Japan : 

 Okinawa, Luchu Island (/. E. A. Lewis). 



MECYNOTHRIPS Bagnall 



Mecynothrips Bagnall, 1908b : 356-357. Type-species M . wallacei, by monotypy. 



The genus Kleothrips is very close to Mecynothrips and could well be treated as a 

 synonym. Mecynothrips is distinguished by the presence of horns on the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum in the male, but both genera have many characters in 

 common. The fore ocellus is weakly developed and a pair of setae arise lateral to 

 this ocellus and not posterolateral as in Elaphrothrips species. There are several 

 pairs of long wing retaining setae arising near the lateral margins of the tergites, a 

 character not found in Elaphrothrips or the more closely related Tiarothrips. 



Mecynothrips wallacei Bagnall 



Mecynothrips wallacei Bagnall, 1908b : 357-358. 



M. bagnalli Priesner (1935 : 335) is probably a synonym of wallacei. Bagnall's 

 original figure is in error as his type specimen has two fore femoral teeth just as in 

 Priesner's figure of bagnalli. 



Holotype cJ. New Guinea : Dorey (A. R. Wallace). 



Megathrips brevis (Bagnall) comb. n. 



Siphonothrips brevis Bagnall, 1914c : 291-292. 



The fragmented unique holotype may be a small specimen of lativentris Heeger, 

 although the present author has not seen any other specimen of that species with 

 such short processes on segment six. 



Holotype <J. Yugoslavia : Narenta (/. Sahlberg) . 



Megathrips honoris Bagnall 



Megathrips honoris Bagnall, 1921a! : 395. 



This species is based on a unique male which Bagnall (1916b : 406) regarded 

 originally as quadrituberculatus. The head of this specimen has been shattered but 

 the species can be distinguished from quadrituberculatus as follows ; middle tibiae 

 yellow only at extreme apex ; lateral setae on tube more than half median width of 

 tube ; B x setae on tergite IX about one third as long as tube ; sensoria on antennals 

 V and VI more than one third as long as these segments. 



Holotype (J. Japan : Kobe, iv.1915 (/. E. A. Lewis). 



