130 [J^ine. 



Ireland this year ; Megathrips iwbilis, sp. n., is a fine species and 

 a very interesting addition to our fauna ; TricJiothrips copiosus, Uzel, 

 is evidently a widely distributed European species, anrl I have no 

 doubt that it will ultimately be found more or less commonly in this 

 country, whilst T. semiccecus, Uzel, was only known previously from 

 Bohemia, the macropterous form, herein recorded, beina; new to 

 science. T believe that if the TuhuUfera were systematically col- 

 lected in the South of England many more species would be added 

 to the British fauna ; they should be seaiched for amongst dead 

 leaves, moss, under bark of fallen trees, in flowers, &c., and collected 

 into tubes of 70 "/^ alcohol, or into a weak solution of formalin. 



A few Entomological friends have during the past year very 

 kindly collected and sent me parcels of Tlirips, all of them interest- 

 ing, and I would take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to 

 Dr. David Sharp, F. R.S., and Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe for their 

 very interesting communications. 



Sub-Order TUBULIFERA. 

 Megathrips nohilis, sp. nov. 



Length, ? , 4-0— 47 mm. : $ , SS— 3-8 mm. 



Colour, coal-black, antennae with third anrl fourth joints yellow, tipped with 

 black, and basal third of fifth joint yellow. 



? . Head long, more than twice as long as wide across eyes ; slightly swollen 

 at basal-third ; vertex slightly raised ; cheeks sparsely set with short spines. Eyes 

 small ; ocelli small, posterior pair widely separated and touching inner margins of 

 eyes at a line drawn through them at their anterior third ; anterior ocellus at apex 

 of head and protected by a pair of long bristles ; post-ocular bristles short. 

 Antennae as long as head and prothorax together ; joints three to five claviform 

 and six to eight fusiform ; sense-cones long and slender. Mouth-cone nearly 

 reaching to base of presternum, blunt at tip ; palpi stout. Prothorax one-third 

 the length of head, and bristles at each posterior angle the longest; posterior-marginal 

 pair, and pair at anterior angles short, and others small and inconspicuous ; surface 

 finley reticulated. Pterothorax sub-quadrate, surface finely reticulated. Wings 

 reduced to pads. Legs comparatively stout, fore-tarsal tooth obsolete in both sexes. 

 Abdomen moderately broad, wider than pterothorax ; widest at fourth segment and 

 from thence narrowing smoothly to tube. Tube nearly four times as long as ninth 

 segment and as long as the head, slightly constricted near tip ; surface minutely 

 setose. 



$ . In the male the sixth abdominal segment is furnished with a pair of stout 

 tubiform processes having their bases at each anterior angle and extending beyond 

 the apex of the seventh segment ; the seventh segment has a minute bristle-set 

 tubercle, and the eighth a strong, latei'al tooth-like process near each apical angle. 

 The tube is shorter than the head and about three times the length of the ninth 

 segment. 



