6o L. A. MOUND 



medially seventy to eighty dagger-shaped setae. The female is variable in pigmen- 

 tation, very similar to nigricornis but with the median setae on abdominal tergites 

 II and III longer, about 0-25 as long as the pronotal postero-angulars. 



Syntypes $. India : Bengal, Pusa, on Lucerne, 24.il. 1906 (Maxwell Lefroy). 



Taeniothrips sjostedti (Try bom) 



Physopus sjostedti Trybom, 1908 : 4-6. 

 Physothrips variabilis Bagnall, 19131 : 294. Syn. n. 

 Taeniothrips sjostedti (Trybom) ; Faure, 1960a : 34-44. 

 Taeniothrips meridiana Moulton, 1936 : 503-504. Syn. n. 



The broad form of the head referred to by Bagnall in describing variabilis is due to 

 crushing by the cover-slip in mounting. The present author has examined numerous 

 specimens of this species, particularly from a suction-trap in Malawi, and the first 

 vein of the fore wing occasionally bears a complete row of setae. The pale band on 

 the fore wing is variable, but the shape of the teeth of the pleurosternites figured by 

 Faure is a valuable distinction between this species and nigricornis. Both the 

 holotype and allotype of meridiana are in the British Museum (Natural History). 



LECTOTYPE 9 of variabilis. Comoro Islands : Mayotte, ' Coll : Marie, R. 

 Oberthiir '. 



Holotype $ of meridiana. Uganda : Kampala, 11.1.1924 (H . Hat greaves). 



Taeniothrips sodalis Bagnall 



Taeniothrips sodalis Bagnall, 1926c : 651. 

 Taeniothrips sodalis Bagnall ; Priesner, 1964 : 74. 



This species is represented in the Bagnall collection by a single male and female, 

 both of which are damaged. The relationship of these to the atratus-vulgatissimns 

 group is not clear. 



LECTOTYPE <j>. Italy : Portici (Napoli), in Caprifoglio, 31.V.1917 (C. 



Minozzi). 



Taeniothrips spiranthidis (Bagnall) 



Physothrips spiranthidis Bagnall, 1926c : 104-105. 



Although apparently related to picipes and inconsequens, spiranthidis can be 

 distinguished from these two species by the origin of ocellar setae III just anterior 

 to the lateral sides of the ocellar triangle. 



LECTOTYPE $. Australia : Victoria, Healesville, Spiranthes australis, 

 28.1.1923 (R. Kelly). 



