8 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Cape Colony : Stellenbosch, 3 $ , 5 $ , November, 1887, L. 

 Peringuey. 



A native of the Palearctic Eegion. This species is found in Africa 

 from Somaliland to the Congo and Cape Colony ; it is now firmly 

 established in North America. 



2. L. MARGINALIS, Thunb. 



Forficula marginalis, Thunberg, Acta Soc. Upsal, ix., p. 52 (1827). 

 Transvaal : Pietersburg, Shilouvane, 1 ? . 

 Delagoa Bay : 1 ? , L. De Coster, 1889. 

 Widely distributed throughout Africa. 



GEN. SPHINGOLABIS, Bormans. 



1. S. VILLICA, sp. n. 



Fig. 4, a-b. 



Statura sat forti ; caput et pronotum fulvo-rufa ; elytra alseque 

 nigrae, abdomen nigrum, pedes flavi ; pygidium acuminatum ; for- 

 cipis bracchia $ valida, elongata ac depressa, ante apicem dente 

 forti armata. 



Long, corporis : $ , 7*5 mm. 

 Long, forcipis : $ , 2'5 mm. 



Size medium. 



Antennae with 13 segments, pyriform or sub-conical, the third 

 quite short, the fourth and fifth each quite as long as, or longer than, 

 the third, dark brown. 



Head brick-red, rather broad, tumid posteriorly, and somewhat 

 excavate posteriorly ; eyes small, black. 



Pronotum orange-yellow, as broad as long, anterior margin gently 

 convex, sides straight, posterior margin rounded, flat. 



Elytra and wings ample, black, finely punctulate, with a dense 

 close pubescence. 



Legs yellow, the femora black at the base ; tarsi slender, first and 

 third segments equally long and slender ; femora rather thick. 



Abdomen parallel-sided, passing from black at the base to deep 

 red near the apex, covered with long reddish bristles. 



Last dorsal segment transverse, rectangular, with a feeble depres- 

 sion in the middle of the posterior margin, and a faint tumid elevation 

 on each side of it. 



Forceps with the branches in the $ remote at the base, stout and 

 rather broad, elongate, and nearly straight, depressed and sulculate 



