2(34 Mr. Newman's Characters 



XXV. Characters of 2\vo undescribed Species of Tlirips, 

 Lin. By Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S. &c. 



[Read 3rd December, 1855.] 



Our Secretary having obligingly placed in my hands a few speci- 

 mens of TUrips, which he has just received from a member of our 

 Society, Major Hamilton, now stationed at Mysore, I beg to sub- 

 mit to the Society the following brief notes resulting from a cursory 

 examination of them, and from a reference to those works in 

 which they were likely to be described. 



Class NEUROPTERA. Order THRIPSINA. 



The Bibliography of the order Thrips'ma may be said to be 

 exclusively in the hands of Mr. Haliday : I am aware that species 

 have been described by Linnaeus, Fabricius, Kirby, Midler, Bur- 

 meister, Amyot, Heeger and others, but the collection and 

 arrangement of the scattered and somewhat crude descriptions 

 of other writers has been undertaken and achieved by that ac- 

 complished Entomologist, who has interwoven his materials with a 

 mass of original observations that confers the chief value on the 

 digested summary. Mr. Haliday 's papers on Thr'tps were pub- 

 lished in the Third Volume of the Entomological Magazine, pp. 

 439 — 551, in the year 1836, and in the fourth part of the Catalogue 

 of Homopterous Insects in the British Museum, pp. 1094 — 1118, 

 in the year 1 852. In both instances the group is called an " order," 

 and named, in the first instance, Thijsanoptera, in the second, 

 Physapuda, the termination of the first name appearing to in- 

 dicate that the learned author considered the Thrlpshui an equiva- 

 lent grouj) to lie mi pi era and Orthoptera, with which he especially 

 contrasts it ; and the second implying a sectional or secondary 

 division, such an one in fact as ihey occupy as a portion of tlie 

 Homoptera in the Museum Catalogue, lie this as it may, 1 learn 

 from Mr. Haliday himself that he is about to undertake a com- 

 plete revision of his previous labours, which revision he will 

 doubtless accompany with a careful consideration of the position 

 and rank held by the Thrips'ma in the insect world. Until the 

 publication of his views I shall continue to regard them as forming 

 an intrinsic and essential portion of the restricted class Neurop- 

 tero, with which the metamorphosis and alary characters are in 



