On some South African Demnaptera (Earwigs). 



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Last dorsal segment transverse in the $ , the posterior margin 

 raised into a low, rugulose ridge, beyond which the surface slopes 

 down to the pygidium ; in the ? simple, narrow. 



Penultimate ventral segment $ broadly rounded. 



Pygidium $ an obtuse tubercle, with face vertical and lower 



FIG. 6. (a) M. promontorii 3 type ; (b) forceps 3 . 



margin produced into a narrow flat transverse lobe, with converging 

 sides and truncate apically ; in $ minute. 



Forceps with the branches in the $ slender, remote at the base, 

 gently arcuate, feebly dilated near the base, with an almost obsolete 

 tooth near the apex ; in the ? simple, straight and sub-contiguous. 



Cape Colony : Caledon, $ 5 , L. Peringuey, 1905. 



This species has a close superficial resemblance to the European 

 Apteryyida albipennis, which goes even down to the forceps, but the 

 pygidium is not quite the same, and the rudimentary elytra at once 

 distinguish it. 



3. M. KAFFIK, sp. n. 

 Fig. 7, a-b. 



Elytris valde rudimentariis, ad suturam non attingentibus ; 

 pygidium $ $ emarginatum, lobis acutis ; forcipis bracchia J 



rernota, gracilia. 



Long, corporis : 3 , 8-5 mm. 



Long, forcipis : $ , 3'5 mm. 



