LABI A. 



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Pronotum subquadrate, gently widened posteriorly 

 in macropterous forms. Elytra perfect, smooth, not 

 keeled. Wings perfect or abortive. Abdomen parallel- 

 sided. Legs not very long; tarsi slender, as long as the 

 tibia?, first and third segments about equally long, the 

 second minute. Callipers various, generally remote 

 in the male. Pygidium various (Burr, ' Genera 

 Insect or um '). 



The genus contains about fifty species, the type L. 

 'minor being the only British and European representa- 

 tive of the genus. 



1. Labia minor Leach. 

 (Plate II, fig. 1.) 



minor LINN. Syst. nat. ed. x, i, p. 423 . 

 ,, LEACH Edinb. encycl. viii. p. 707 

 STEPH. Mand. vi. p. 8 

 FISCHER Orth. Eur. p. 70. tab. vi, f. 7a-d . 

 FRIV. Orth. Hung. p. 46 . 

 BRUNNER Prod, der Eur. Orth. p. 10, f. 3 

 SHAW Ent. Mo. Mag. p. 357 

 FINOT Faune Fr., Orth. p. 65, f . 31 . 

 BURR Brit, Orth. p. 15, pi. 1, fig. 4 . 

 Minor KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. i. p. 25 . 

 minor BURR Syn. Orth. West, Eur. p. 5 



BURR Genera Iiisectorum, Fasc. 122. p. 55 

 LUCAS Proc, S. Lond. Ent. Soc. p. 24, pi. 



iv. f. 1 .... 



min n ta SCUDD. Bost. journ. nat, hist, vii, pp. 

 415-416 . 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



FORFICULA minor. 2. F. elytris testaceis iminaculatis. . . . Fn. 

 suec. 600. Forficnla alis elytro concoloribus. . . Habitat in 

 Europa. (C. Linnaeus, ' Systema Naturae,' Tom. i, 1758, p. 423.) 



861. FORFICULA minor elytris testaceis imniaculatis. 

 Forficula alis elytro concoloribus. Fn. 600. . . . Habitat in 

 sterquiliniis. . . . DESCR. Dimidio minor est hsec species, colore 

 castaneo. Caput et thorax nigricantia. Elytra et al-x (quae com- 

 plicata? apice prominent) castaiiea ; abdomen castaneuin. Forceps 

 caudae erectior. Antenna X tantum articulis, non vero X1Y, uti 

 praecedens. Pedes et abdomen subtus pallidiora. (C. Linnaeus, 'Fauna 

 suecica.' p. 234, 1761.) 



MALE IMAGO (PL II, fig. 1). Size small; general 

 colour rather dark sienna-brown, head darker, legs 

 paler ; somewhat pubescent. Antennae (fig. 5, a) of 

 12 segments, two at the base paler, and two or three 



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-Forfici'ln. 



-Labia. 



-Labia. 



-Forficula. 



-Forfieesila. 



-Labia. 



-Labia. 



-Labia. 



-Labia. 



-Labia. 



-Labia. 



-Lab in. 



-Labia. 

 186'2-Labia. 



