40 I'.IMTISII OKTIlol'Tia'A. 



auricularia FINOT Faune de la France, Orth. p. 66, 



ff. 32-34 1889 Forficula. 



SHAW Ent. Mo. Mag. p. 355 . 1889 Forficula. 



BURR Brit. Orth. p. 15, pi. i, f. 5 . 1897 Forficula. 



Auricularia KIRBY Syn. Cat. Orth. i, p. 49 . 1904 Forficula. 



inricularia BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 6 . . 1910 Forficula. 



BURR Gen. Ins., Fasc. 122, p. 81 . . 1911 Forficula. 

 LUCAS Proc. S. Loiid. Ent. Soc. p. 24, 



pis. iv ff. 6 and 7 and v ff. 1 and 2 . 1912 Forficula. 

 BRiNDLEYProc.Camb.Philos.Soc. 1912-1918 Forficula, 

 CHAPMAN Ent. Rec. Jan. . . . 1917 Forficula. 



(Other synonyms are F. major De Geer, F. dentata Fabr., F. parallela 

 Fabr., F. infumata Megerle, F. cyclolabia Schm., F. macrolabia 

 Schm., and F. lurida Fisch. F. neglecta Marsham is an ordinary 

 female ; F. media Marsham is F. auricularia with rather longer 

 callipers than those of the usual form ; F. borealis Steph. has 

 still longer callipers ; F. forcipata Steph. has very long callipers.) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



auricularia 1. F. elytris apice albis. Fn. svec. 599. 

 Habitat in Europa. 



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

 860. FORFICULA auricularia elytris apice albis. Fn. 599. 

 Suecis Twestiert, Oernmask. 

 Habitat in terra prsegnanti. 



DESCR. Insectum oblonguin. Antennas setacea3, longas, tredecim 

 vel quatuordecim articulis. Clypeus Thoracis planus ; antice 

 truncatus, pone rotundatus, pallidus, in medio niger. Elytra 

 pallide rufa. Alx extra elytra prominulse, apice extrorsum 

 alba; ovata macula. Abdomen rufescens, nudum. Cauda 

 duobus unguibus arcuatis, apice conniventibus, corneis 

 forcipata. 



(C. Linnaeus, ' Fauna Suecica/ p. 234, 1761.) 



MALE IMAGO (PI. II, fig. 6). --General colour dark 

 chestnut, leys paler. Length 14-21 mm., or more; 

 length of callipers 3-9 mm., or more. Antennas of 14 

 segments, the basal ones being rather paler ; eyes black. 

 Pronotum dark, with paler margins. Elytra pale, with 

 straight hind-margin. Wings (fig. 6) ample, hyaline. 

 Scent-folds present on third and fourth segments of 

 abdomen ; anal segment with four posterior tubercles. 

 Callipers* (fig. 2, no. 1) reddish, darker at the tip; 

 in the typical form flattened and irregularly toothed 

 on the inner margin at the base ; one large tooth where 

 the branches commence to curve ; these are then more 

 slender and curved almost in a circle (fig. 8). 



* Some country people in Scotland call the earwig the " Horned Gollich." 



