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MR. R. S. BAGNALL ON A COLLECTION" OF 



margin o£ tergite, which are longer than segments 9 and 10 together 

 and dark brown in colour. Tergite 10 with four long colourless bristles, 

 about 0*75 tbe length of those on 9 ; two shorter ones at extreme tip 

 (vestigial segment 11). 



Type. In Hope Collections, University Museum, Oxford. 



Habitat. Teinidad, Sangre Grande, July 1913. Associated with Heliothri^s 

 Tuhrocinctiis on cacao-leaves. 



In many respects, especially in the form of body, this species reminds one 

 of Franklinothrips vespiformis, C^rawf., from which it may be distinguished 

 by the form of antenna? and head, coloration of abdomen, the first three and 

 10th segments of which are light in this species. 



Family T H R I r I D iE. 

 Genus Heliothrips, Bal. 

 Heliothrips h^^biorrhoidalis {Bouche) and var. abdobiinalis, Rent. 

 44 ? 's and larva? on Liberian Coffee ; Esparanza Estate, California, 

 Trinidad, Oct. 1912 ; on under sides of leaves, also on upper side when 

 well shaded (99-4). 



4 $ 's £. typica only and larva? on coconut-leaves, Cocal, East Coast, 

 Trinidad, July 1913 (99-G). 



Fio-. 1. — Frankliniella insularis (Franklin). X 20. 



2. — The same ; underside of abdomen in cJ . X c. 20. 



Genus Frankliniella, Kamy. 



Frankliniella insularis {Franklbi), cf. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxxiii. 

 (1908) 715. 



Both sexes of this species, described by Franklin from Barbados, are well 

 represented in two tubes, one from flowers of Erytlirina (7 ? 's, 1 (J, and 



