60 [March, 



" nigm pedilnis flavis." (Andre calls the legs "rouges" ; but his speci- 

 men must, I should think, have been discoloured, possibly by C3'anide !) 

 The labrum, sides o£ the prothorax, and tegulae are also yellow, and in 

 the c? the clypeus also is yellow. Some of these colour details may 

 probably vary in individuals, but hardly enough to throw any doubt on 

 the identification of a specimen.* 



A closely-related species, not yet found in Britain, is genucinctus 

 Zadd. {=^annulipes Thoms.), but this appears to be both larger and 

 darker, and to have the stigma entirely fuscous. I have never seen a 

 specimen, and according to Enslin it is the rarest of all the Loderi ; 

 but, as its distribution is said to be the same as that of gilvipes, it may 

 quite possibly yet turn up in our northern districts. 



Wokiiiff, 



Fvbruanj \Wi, 1919. 



PRELIMINAIiY NOTES AND DESCEIPTIONS OF SOME EUROPEAN 

 SPECIES OP AE0L0THRIP8. 



BY EICUAED S. BAGNALL, F.L.S. 



For some time I have had in preparation an account of the 

 A.eolothripidae rendered necessaiy by recent discoveries, but as circum- 

 stances make it impossible to complete this in the near future, I think it 

 advisable to publish the following notes on the genus Aeolothrips. 



a. Anteuual joint 3 whitish, apically tinged with brown ; wings barred. 



Aeolothrips fasciat us (L.). 



This common species occurs in various flowers, but I have never 

 yet found it on heath {Erica) or seen it recorded from that plant. The 

 following closely allied species would seem to be attached to Erica, 



Aeolothrips ericae, sp. n. 



5 . This species differs from fasciatus by the whitish antenna! segments 1 

 and 2 and abdominal segments 2 and 3, the second abdominal segment in some 

 specimens being brownish. The femora are lighter in colour than the tibiae, 

 this feature being especially marked in the J. The wings are narrower than 

 in fasciatus, with the lateral margins of "bars" more regular and approxi- 

 mately subparallel. The oth antennal joint is longer in relation to the four 

 apical joints. . 



* I have given a photograph of the saw of the 5 sent to me by Kouow as " ornatulus" in Tr. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. 1913 (pi. xxiii, ttg. 4, Z. gihipes Kl.). 



