6 SJÖSTEDTS KILIMANDJABO-MERU EXPEDITION. 17: 1. 



ZU den Bergwiesen; ca. 3,000 m., unter Moos auf Bäumen. » II. 06. 18 males, 17 females, 

 and 22 immature specimens. 



This is a very distinct species; in the black body and read liead it resembles 

 A. laeta Gerst., but is considerably larger and the characteristic forceps easily 

 distinguish it; it resembles that species in having the sides of she dorsal abdominal 

 plates terminating in a convexity towards the apex of the abdomen, but this convexity 

 is less pronounced than in that species, and instead of being furnished with one 

 horizontal carina, the sides of these rings are rugulose. 



The forceps are bent as in the typical species of the genus, A. maritima, but 

 the bend is much more abrupt; the shape of the forceps and the tooth near the base 

 recall A brunneri, from Australia, but in that species the coloration is different, the 

 basal tooth of the forceps is blunt, not sharp, and the branches are bent and not 

 abruptly angled. 



It is undoubtly allied to a hitherto undescribed species from Nyassa, in niy 

 collection, of which I append the description for purposes of comparison. 



It also resembles A rufescens Kirby, from West Africa, but the coloration is 

 different and the forceps are not the same. 



Anisolabifs iiifelix n. sp. 



Statura majore; colore nigi'o; capite fusco-castaneo: antennae segnientis 4 et 2 brevibus, conicis, ceteris 

 ronico-cylindrii'is; pro-, raeso- et nietanota ininctulata; abdomen glabrum, miuute puiirtulatiim; J" segmentis 

 apicalibiis lateribus convcxis et rugulosis; forcipis braccliia subeontigua, valida, apice atteuuata et incurva. 



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Long, corporis ... 20 mm. 21 mm. 

 » forcipis ... 3 » 4,5 » 



Large; decj) black. head dark reddisb cbestmit. 



Antenuae with (V) segments, deeji reddisb bhirk: 3 not so long as in other species; 4 and 6 together 

 equal in lengtb to H, conical; the rest longer, passing iium conical to cylindrical. 



Head smooth, deep chestnut, almost black. 



Pronotum subquadrate, punctulate, sligbtly broader posferiorly than anteriorly, the lateral margins 

 exceedingly narrowly retlexed and reddisb. 



Meso- and metanotum ample, flat, deeii dull black, and punctulate. 



Feet dirty yellow, with yellow pubescence; femora and tibiae rather slun-t. 



Abilomen dark reddish black, entirely [mnctulate: in the J" dorsal .segments at the sides gently conve.x 

 in the basal segments, distinctly convex in the a\nca\ .segments : tbc convex part distinctly rugulose in the 

 apical segments. 



Venter shining, rauch more fiuely punctulate. 



Last dorsal segment, ample, subquadrate, with rows of exceetlingly minutc punctulations. 



P^orceps with the branches sliort, very stout, and triquetre at the base, nearly contiguous, gently curved 

 inwards and upwards, attenuate apically, not toothed. 



Hab: — Nya.ssa (one ])air in my collection, brought from a Gennan dealer). 



I describe this species here in order to compare it with the allied species from Kilimandjaro; in the 

 structurc of tlie sides of the ajncal dorsal abdominal segments it approacbes .4. lacfa, as also somewhat in the 

 shape of the forceps, but it is much larger and of a stouter build. The female resembles the male in every 

 respect except that the convexity of the sides of the abdominal segments is far less pronounced, and they are 

 less rugulose; is also the case in A. laeta. 



