1914.] 35 



punctures being also shining. The mesonotum is evenly punctured, 

 the punctures fairly deep, and the surface shining. The stigma is 

 yellowish-brown, not of the very pallid yellow colour of niy sp. ft 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1913, p. 167), and of A. spreta, Per. 



In the £ , according to a continental example taken by Mr. Morice 

 at Bozen in June, 1907, the abdominal sculpture is very similar to that 

 of the 5 . It bears a close resemblance to the 8jp. ft (alluded to 

 above), but the rugosity of the propodeum is less dense, and the 

 anterior area is defined by raised lines, the stigma is much darker, and 

 the face distinctly less wide. The ? of sp. ft on the other hand has 

 no resemblance to the $ of Kirby's nana, in fact the very great sexual 

 dimorphism of sp. ft is one of its most striking features. 



In conclusion, I may add that the tables in my former paper 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., XLIX, pp. 106-171) will require slight modification 

 now that the material examined has been so much greater, but it is 

 advisable to await further information from the Continent before 

 adding additional notes. It is clear that we have six quite distinct 

 species of the group in England. I have now seen 1 £ and 1 $ of a 

 second brood of A. nana, Saunders nee Kirby, the specimens almost or 

 quite identical with those of the first, so that the possibility of ep. ft 

 being a second brood of this cannot be entertained. 



Park Hill House, Paignton : 

 December 16th, 1913. 



DESCRIPTIONS OP SOME NEW SPECIES OF BRITISH 



THYSANOPTERA (TUBULIFERA), 



WITH NOTES ON VARIOUS DESCRIBED FORMS. 



BY RICHARD S. BAGNALL, F.L.S. 



(Hope Department of Zoology, University Museum, Oxford). 



(Concluded from Vol. xlix, page 266). 



HOPLANDROTHRIFS ELLISI, sp. n* 



Length 2*3 to 2-6 mm. 



Colour dark grey-brown ; fore-tibiae yellow, shaded with brown basally and 

 along edges ; extreme apices of intermediate and hind tibia yellowish ; all tarsi 

 yellowish ; basal half of tube darker than distal half. Antennal joints 1, 2, and 



• 1 find pleasure in naming this and the following species in honour of Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis 

 and Mr. J. Collins respectively. 



