fOSTA UICAN DERMAPTERA AM) ORTHOPTERA 
liuMieral angle than in th(‘ latter si)eeies, l)ut there can be no 
confusion with the vei'y smooth lu'ad and conipk'tely keek'd 
tegmina of Neolohophora. 
ANO 1 STROG ASTRI NA E 
Paracosmia oarrikeri now s]) 0 (‘ios (Plato XVII, figures 4, n and (1.) 
A striking member of the genns, more nearly i'elat('d to P. 
gvlosa (Scudd('i') and mlvcstrri Itoi'elli than to the otlu'i' sjx'cic's 
which have Ix'en I'eferred to the genus. From gulosa, with a. 
male paraty])e of which the new form has been comi)aredd' 
carrikeri is seen to differ chiefly in its more elongate, attenuate 
foi-m; in tlie liead being more elongate cordiform; the pronotiim 
pi-oportionately narrower, being appreciably narrower than the 
head, and th(' lateral margins nearly straight, faintly convergent 
candad; the abdomen eloiigate fusiform; in the fifth and sixth 
doi'sal abdomimd segments ])eing without lateral carinae; in the 
ultimate dorsal al)dominal segment having the lat('ral margins 
weakly convei'gent caudad, instead of subi)arallel; in the mor(' 
(‘longate and distad attenuate' forceps, which are sti'aighter in 
pi'oflle, with the a])ices moix^ falcate and without as marked a 
])r('distal “ bite” as found in gulo.sa;\n tlu'angulate ('inargination 
iiistc'ad of truncate Jiiedian enuirgina.tion of tlu' pe'nult imatc! 
v(‘idral abdomimd segment, and in tlu' ('longate', atte'nuate' limbs. 
I'koin sHve.sinl Borelli the new tbrm diffe'rs in the same le'ature's 
as fi'eem giilosa, except that the ultimate deersal abdominal se'g- 
iiK'nt agi'e'e's in shape in .silveslni and carrikeri, and in silve^tni 
( h(' tvgmina ai'e shoi't and t he wings not, e'^’ident, while' in carn- 
keri tlu'se ;ii'e' as in guloxa. Hebard'-'’ alre'ady has sugge'ste'd that 
galom and silvesirii may I'e'present forms of the same s])e'cie's, 
which ai)])e'ar te) us to be epiite lU'eebable. 
No e'omi)arison is ne'cessary with the' otlu'r si)e'e*ie's which have' 
bee'.n r('f('i'i-('d to Paracosmia , or iiny s])('e'ie's which have' b('('U 
assigiH'd to l■('late'd ge'ue'ra,. 
; FurriaJba, (k)st;i. Itica,. (M. A. C.'i.rrik('i', .Ir.) 
■jlb'bnrd ( 'olk'ct ion, Type' im. 212.] 
Size inodcni I (‘ly l.■ll■g(‘; lor'rn siilxlcin'cssccl ; sini’ai'c simxitli I'lil diiit 
licnd siil)cl(iiig:il (' <’oi'ddniiu, sliglilly ioiigcr lliiiii liroail, widlli .■iim'oss eyes 
l;diill\’ grc.'ilcr lli;iti (•;iud:Ml nf s:mic; ciiiido-td ('t:d inigics l)i’n:idt\’ rmnidcd; 
S(M' llrhiird, 4'rans. Aiiu'C. l''id(im. Sue, xi.iii p. 12S, il'dlT). 
\ idc siiiu'M. 
