4 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town, 2 Nieuwoudtville, 2 $ ; Caledon, 1 $ , 



June, 1887, L. Peringuey ; Dunbrody, 1 $ . 



Hitherto only known from de Bormans' type and syntypes, from 

 Caledon, Cape Colony. 



SUB-FAMILY LABIDURIN^. 



GEN. LABIDUEA, Leach. 



1. L. RIPAEIA, Pall. 



Forficula riparia, Pallas, Eeise russ., ii., Anhang., p. 727 (1773). 

 Eecorded from numerous places in Cape Colony, Orange Eiver 



Colony, Transvaal, and Ehodesia. 

 A cosmopolitan species. 



GEN. NALA, Zacher. 



1. N. LIVIDIPES, Duf. 



Forficula lividipes, Dufour, Ann. Sci. Nat., xiii., p. 340 

 (1828). 



Echinosoma obscurwn \ Kirby, Ins. Transvaalensia, Orth., p. 12 



Labidura indistincta I (1900). 



Bechuanaland : Vryburg, 2 $ , 5 $ , Jones, 1904. 



Found throughout the Old World. South African specimens of 

 this species were described by Kirby under the names of Echinosoma 

 obscurum and Labidura indistincta. 



SUB-FAMILY BRACHYLABIN^:. 



GEN. CTENISOLABIS, Verhoeff. 



1. C. TOGOENSIS, Verhoeff. 



C. togoensis, Verhoeff, S. B. ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, No. 1, p. 14 

 (1901). 



Cape Colony : Dunbrody, 3 ? , 1 larva. 



These specimens are undoubtedly referable to Ctenisolabis, and 

 I refer them provisionally to the only known African species, C. 

 togoensis. But these small, rare, apterous earwigs are probably 

 restricted in distribution, and it is very likely that these specimens 

 from Cape Colony are distinct from Verhoeff's species from Togo. 

 But it is impossible to draw good specific distinctions from Verhoeff's 

 description alone, and a careful comparison of authentic specimens 

 is necessary in order to establish the identity or distinction. 



