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Bagnall distinguished fulvicollis originally from fasciatus (Linn.) by the yellowish 

 colour of the pronotum, but the species does not appear to differ essentially from 

 collaris described that same year from Albania. The dark transverse markings on 

 the fore wings were considered to be narrower in brevicinctus than in collaris, but 

 these markings are known to be variable, and the chaetotaxy of the ninth abdominal 

 segment in the males is identical in both forms. 



LECTOTYPE $ of fulvicollis. India : Cawnpur, in fl. Verbascum, 20.iii.1911 

 (A. D. Imms). 



LECTOTYPE $ of brevicinctus. France : St. Cyr-sur-Mer, in fl. crucifer, 

 ix.1927. 



Aeolothrips ericae Bagnall 

 Aeolothrips ericae Bagnall, 1920 : 60-61. 



This species was distinguished from fasciatus (Linn.) by the pale basal antennal 

 joints and the presence of a pair of stout sickle-shaped bristles on the ninth abdominal 

 segment in the male. The species comes near collaris, but the median pale wing bar 

 is usually parallel-sided rather than V-shaped, and the tenth abdominal segment of 

 the female rather paler than the preceding segment. 



The type is not in the Bagnall collection, and is probably lost. The original 

 description was based on material from various localities including Ilfracombe, and 

 the following specimens can be regarded as syntypes. 



Syntypes, 2$, 1$. England : Devon, Ilfracombe, on Erica, viii.1913 (R.S.B.). 



Aeolothrips gloriosus Bagnall 



Aeolothrips gloriosus Bagnall, I9i4f : 375-376. 



This is a very distinctive species with yellow legs, head, thorax and anterior 

 abdominal segments. Antennal segments one and two, and the basal half of three 

 are also yellow. The original description refers to three females collected by 

 Dr. A. H. Krausse at Sorgono, Sardinia, and submitted to Bagnall by the ' German 

 Entomological Museum '. These specimens are not in the Deutsches Entomolo- 

 gisches Institut or the Humboldt University Museum in Berlin. However, there is 

 in the British Museum (Natural History) a single female of this species labelled 

 ' SARDINIA, Sorgono, Coll. Dr. A. H. Krausse, In tube purchased by R. S. 

 Bagnall '. There were three labels on the right-hand side of the slide, the first two 

 are both marked ' Type ' but the uppermost label is marked ' Comp. with Type '. 

 The male has not been described but there is a male bearing the same collection data 

 as the above female in the British Museum collection. This specimen has a brown 

 head, thorax and tibiae. The ninth abdominal segment resembles ghabni Priesner 

 in its chaetotaxy, but the first antennal segment and the ring vein of the fore wing 

 are much paler than in that species. 



