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EICHAED S. BAGNALL. 



Tergite 8 with longish fringe ; tergite 9 with special dorsal setae weak, disposed 

 as in fig. 1 c. 



Types. In British Museum (Imperial Bureau of Entomology). 



Gold Coast : Aburi ; apparently common ; females only in flowers of Solanum 

 tuberosum, and S. wendlandii ; both sexes, but chiefly females, in flowers of Ipomoea 

 bona-non, and both sexes, with the males fairly plentiful in flowers of Hibiscus sinensis, 

 Thunbergia erecta, T. laurifolia, Strophantus gratus and Canna, November 1915 

 (W. H. Patterson). 



Physothrips funtumiae, Bagn. (fig. 2) ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii, 1913, p. 292. 



The female of this species approximates 1*5 mm. in length and in its general 

 appearance and chaetotaxy it would seem to have closer relationship with kellyanus 

 than with marshalli. It is distinguished at once by the stout specialised spines on 





Fig. 2. Physothrips funtumiae, Bagn. 

 a, head and pro thorax of ?, X c.135 

 6, sternite 6 of (J showing areas, X c. 135 

 c, arrangement of special setae on tergite 

 9 of <J, x c.200. 



tergite 9 of <$, and by the depressions on sternites 3 to 7 being disposed in 3 (or 

 more generally 4) more or less regular transverse rows, the uppermost row having, 

 in most cases, a long transverse area medianly in the place of several isolated smaller 

 areas. There is an interesting colour dimorphism or antigeny in the antennae. In 

 the $ the antennae are coloured as in P. kellyanus, except that segment 3 is of 

 a somewhat yellowish brown, lighter than the succeeding ; in the $, however, the 



