184 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Frons mutic ; abdominal sutures distinct. 



Second suture subobsolete ; legs clear red . 3. pallidipen, Nees. 



Second suture distinct. 



Femora testaceous, rarely black-rayed. 



AntenufB 29-jointed ; terebra as long as body 



4. caledonicus, Marsh. 



Antennae at most 26-jointed ; terebra shorter than body 



5. luteipes, Thorns. 



Femora black, rarely apically red. 



Antennae at least 27-jointed ; length, 3 mm. . 6. striatuhts, Nees. 



Antennae at most 25-jointed ; length, 1 to 2 mm. 



Terebra longer than body . . . . .7. caudahis, Nees. 



Terebra much shorter than body. 



Abdomen broadest at the not apically striate third seg- 

 ment ....... 8. floricola, Wesm. 



Abdomen broadest beyond the entirely striate third seg- 

 ment ....... 9. obsciirelkis, Nees. 



Only four species are known to me, but they are all about 

 equally common : — 



Sigalphus luteipes. — Taken by Mr. Tuck at Benacre Broad and 

 Aldeburgh, in Suffolk, in August and September ; and by myself 

 by sweeping at Bramford, and on angelica flowers at Kenton, in 

 the some county ; and at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight. 



S. caudatm. — Felden, in Herts (Piffard) ; Kilmore, in August 

 (Beaumont) ; Greenings, in Surrey, July, 1872 (W. Saunders) ; 

 Aldeburgh, in September (Tuck) ; Needham, Ipswich, and Clay- 

 don, in Suffolk. 



S. floricola. — I have swept this species from reeds at South- 

 wold, on the Suffolk coast, 28th September, 1900 ; Piffard has 

 found it at Felden ; and Donisthorpe has bred it from the weevil, 

 Ceuthorhynclms sulcicollis {cf. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1907). 



S. obscurelliis. — Blackheath, in July and August, 1899 (Beau- 

 mont) ; Eeigate, in July, 1872 (W. Saunders) ; Aldeburgh, in 

 September, 1899 (Tuck). 



Monks Soham House, Suffolk : 

 2nd May, 1907. 



A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON SOME JAVANESE 

 SACCHARICOLOUS THYSANOPTERA. 



By G. W. Kikkaldy. 



In 1890 W. Kriiger described* Thrips sacchari and Phloeo- 

 thrips lucassenii. Two years later J. D. Kobus described '/'. ser- 

 rata, hinervis, and striata j)ter a, \ and in 1898 Kobus reprinted his 



:;; II £ej._ Versuclist. West-Java," Hefte 1 and 2. f " Med. Proefst. Oost- 

 Java," No. 43. Both these probably published in the ' Archief voor Suiker- 

 industrie,' 1890 and 1892 respectively. 



