ANNALS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFKICAN MUSEUM. 



(VOL. X.) 



1. On some South African Dermaptera (Eanvigs) in the South 

 African Museum, Cape Town. By MALCOLM BUBE, D.Sc., 

 F.Z.S., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



DR. Louis PERINGUEY, of the South African Museum, Cape Town, 

 has kindly communicated to me a small box of earwigs from South 

 Africa. The collection contains twenty-two species, of which seven 

 are new. If we exclude three from Ehodesia, there remain seven 

 new out of nineteen from South Africa alone. This is a very high 

 proportion, and should be an incentive to further collecting in a 

 district which has not yet been worked for Dermaptera. And out of 

 the nineteen known species, two were sent to Europe by Mr. 

 Peringuey some years ago, and described by de Bormans, which 

 have not been taken since, and, logically speaking, belong to the 

 same collection. 



It is noteworthy that of the new species one is referred to 

 Apterygida, Westw., which, as now reduced, contains only its type, 

 the common Mid-European A. aibipennis, Meg. One is referred to 

 Chelidurelta and two others to Mesochelidura, at least until this 

 group is rearranged, and both these are essentially Palearctic 

 genera. 



A new genus is required for the two new Brachylabincs, a curious 

 and interesting group, represented by isolated species throughout 

 the tropical world. 



Of the two described by de Bormans, one is also referred to 

 Mesochelidura, but the other to Esphalmenus, a genus which is 



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