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whilst the larvie of the Kutlirips and Odi/tlin'pH are clear yellow or 

 orange-yellow, and the antenna of our little friend, under a lens, 

 have the definition usually attributed to a mature thrips. A. ericae 

 appears to prefer the large bell heather, Erica tetralix, from which 

 plant I have more recently taken it on the moors near Riding Mill, 

 Northumberland, 



Hard work examining the junipers which grow so luxuriantly in 

 the Holystone bum failed to produce the Ihrips jiiniperina, L. (Bagn.), 

 but special attention to the grasses and sedges in the neighbourhood 

 of the Harbottle and Selby's Loughs brought to light single examples 

 of four species not yet recorded from the British Isles, namely, the 

 very distinct t'/iirotltrips /uanatiix, Trybom {(Iu(lae,\Jzel), J ; and appar- 

 ently the ^ of Ba(/nallia klapaleld, Uzel, from sedge-like grasses on 

 Harbottle Lough ; 5 s of Frankliniella tcnuiconiis, Uzel, and what 

 agrees well with Uzel's Aua/ihothrijis ferriigineiis, from a soft 

 pasture grass on the banks of Selby's Lough. Several examples of 

 Enthripa pallipennis, Uzel, ? s, a distinct species we have only 

 recently recognised, occurred with the (Jhlrothripa, and a mutilated 

 $ of Pxti/iiallia (lilatatiis, Uzel, another addition to the British 

 fauna, was taken from the Marsh Red Rattle or Lousewort, Pedicalaris 

 paliit^tris, growing in a marshy spot near Holystone. Oxythrips 

 brevicollis, Bagnall, was unsuccessfully searched for in Sphagnum, but as 

 the insects usually found in Spha(/nniii were very scarce indeed, little 

 time was spent in what appeared to be a thankless task. Most of the 

 pines were too tall to examine easil)^ hit by jumping up and tapping 

 some of the lower branches over a paper, a few examples of O.rythrips 

 brecisti/lis, Trybom, were shaken from the flowers, together with its 

 earlier stages, and a single example of O. ajiir/ae, Uzel. Uzel has also 

 recorded the latter from Finns sylrestria, as well as from the bugle 

 [Ajiuja reptans). Aeolothrips vittatua, Haliday, which, in my experience, 

 appears 10 be attached to the pine, was not seen. A good deal of thrips 

 material, less typicallj' moorland, were taken for study, and a little 

 attention was paid to the Coleoptera. 



Altogether, insects were scarce, probably due to the dryness of the 

 season, and only one typical hill beetle was particularly noted, a single 

 PU'rostichiis vitreus, but Microyhissa pidla was found in a wren's nest, 

 whilst several examples of what at first appeared to me to be a small 

 and peculiar jumping Anohiid, were discovered boring into the trunk 

 of a siaiall mountain ash tree growing on the moors between Harbottle 

 and Holystone. These proved to be referable to that puzzling little 

 Anthrihid, Choraym sheppanli, Kirb., an addition to the local fauna, 

 and a beetle that might well prove to be a stumbling block to any 

 one unacquainted with it. 



A Scolopendrella from Alwinton was referable to a new species, 

 which I have named S. ddicattila in a " Synopsis of the British 

 Symphyla," which I hope to publish shortly. 



The Latest in Nomenclature. 



By E. SHELFOED, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 In I'aifc/ie, vol. 18, p. 88 (1911), my friend Mr. A. N. Caudell, 

 whose assiduity in raking up names from the decent obscurity of 

 synonymy I cannot but deplore, states that Steleupyya must replace 



