226 THE entomologist's record. 



the ecto-parasites, of the rarer birds and game birds have become better 

 known to us than those affecting the common birds. 



Protura. — In 1907 Prof. F. Silvestri'- diagnosed an order of 

 curious pi'imitive creatures, aptei'ous and without eyes or antennse, the 

 I'rotiiici, which stands alone in the Insect World. The Italian species 

 have been beautifully monographed by Berlesef, who regards them as 

 a new Order of Myriopods, the Myrientoniaia. I have had the 

 pleasure of discovering species of the three diagnosed genera falling 

 into the two families of the order, the Accrentoniidae and Ensentoinulae, 

 and now that my time can be largely devoted to Zoology, I hope at no 

 distant date to work out our British forms. The species are not really 

 micommon and are also widely distributed ; I have found them in 

 several localities from Dundee southwards. 



Apterygota. — In 1910 I collected a good deal of new material in 

 the order ('oUciiibola (Springtails), including numerous additions to our 

 list, which I have not yet had the opportunity of bringing forward. 

 In 1911 I scarcely did anything in this group with the exception, 

 perhaps, of making other records of some of the species met with in 

 1910, such as the Neelids, Mi'ijalnthorax )niniiiiiis, Willem., and Xeeliis 

 vnirinus, Folsom, the equally tiny ]\iicraniniLln jnjijwaea, Axels., the 

 curious Tt'tracanthiila fthiJtti, Wahl., 'I'lillbeiyia qiiodriKj)i')ius, Born., 

 2\ kraiisbaiicri, Born., J', calipi/ciofi, Born, and others. 



Thysanoptera. — I cannot conclude this brief review without a few 

 words on my favourite insects, the thrips or T/u/sanoptera, although I 

 was unable to do as much work in the group as in previous years. 

 Two recently described species, AtiihhjtJiyipa ericae, Bagn., and Bai/nallia 

 aifneKsae, Bagn.,;j: were taken in new localities, including nuinerous 

 examples of the previously unrecognised male of the latter ; Mr. H. S. 

 Wallace, F.E.S., discovered an interesting new species [I'hi/sntlnips 

 latiis, Bagn.) at Whitfield, Northumberland, whilst Prof. Karny has 

 shown that the large elm-leaf thrips taken by myself in the Derwent 

 Valley and Teesdale differs from the type of IJothnps Inadaccnsiii, 

 Uzel (in the Vienna Hofmuseuni), to which I had I'eferred the species; 

 it must now be known as Hnodia bai/iialH, Karny. ^ At the Harbottle 

 week-end meeting of the Northumberland and Durham Natural History 

 Society, which I noted in this Journal, CJiirothripn ha)iiatns, Tryboni 

 [diidae, Uzel), Fiankiiniella teniricornis, Uzel, Baf/nallia klapaleki, Uzel, 

 and /)'. dilatata, Uzel, were recorded as new to the British fauna. 

 One of these, ('. hmuatun, was taken later at Matley Bog in the New 

 Forest, where Mr. C. B. Williams and I had the pleasure of discovering 

 Ct'p/iolothrips nionilicornifi, Eeut., an insect I had anticipated would be 

 found to occur in our countrv. 



Collecting Rhopalocera in France, 1913. 



By E. B. ASHBY, F.E.S. 

 This year I left London on the afternoon of June Gth by the 2.10 

 p.m. train, which enabled me to reach Clermont-Ferrand (via Paris), 

 in the Auvergne district, the next morning at 6.29. After breakfast 



* Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. e Ag. Portici, Vol. I., p. 296. 



t Redia, vi., 1909. 



I Journal of Economic Biologij, Vol. VI,, pp. 1-11., 1911. 



S r rents. Evt. Soc, 1912. 



