On some South African Dermaptera (Earwigs'). 



ANTISOLABIS, n. g. 



Oculi parvi, anteriores ; elytra omnino desunt ; mesonotum baud 

 carinatum ; antennae segmentis sat longis, baud globularibus. 



Entirely apterous ; eyes small, normal ; mesonotum not keeled ; 

 antennas witb segments relatively long, cylindrical, not globular. 



Tbis genus stands in the same relation to Nannisolabis tbat 

 Isolabis stands to Leptisolabis ; it agrees in the non-keeled meso- 

 notum, but differs in the relatively long and cylindrical antennal 

 segments. 



Type : A. myrmecoides, Burr. 



ANTISOLABIS MYRMECOIDES, sp. n. 

 Fig. 2, a-c. 



Parva, atra ; antennas segmentis 15, cylindricis ; pronoturn trans- 

 versum, postice paullo ampliatum ; thorax linea media rufa 

 ornatus ; caput nitidum ; abdomen innitidum. 



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FIG. 2. (a) A. myrniecoides <? ; (b) antenna ; (c) head 

 and thorax. 



Long, corporis : <? , 5'5 mm. ; $ , 6-6-5 mm. 

 Long, forcipis : $ , 5 mm. ; 2 , 5 mm. 



Small, black, with a tine pale pubescence. 



Antennas black, with 15 segments, all relatively long, cylindrical, 

 not globular, fourth nearly as long as the third, which is about as 

 long as the first, the fifth equal to the third. 



