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depressed, smooth, sutures not very distinct, Pronotum black, 

 narrowly edged with yellowish, square, the angles rounded. 

 Scutellum black, nearly equilateral. Elytra black, granulose, weak 

 at the axillary angle, short, truncated apically. Wings abortive. 

 Legs orange-red. Abdomen black, widened gradually towards the 

 apex in the c? , nearly parallel in the 5 . Last dorsal segment 

 in d very broad, smooth, but riigulose in the middle, the sides 

 produced into strong crested folds; in 5 square, the exterior 

 angles produced into rectangular folds but less strongly than in 

 the c?. Penultimate ventral segment of c? broad and rounded; 

 in 2 triangular and rounded at the apex. Forceps with the 

 branches in (S very strong and broad, depressed, trigonal, subcon- 

 tiguoiis, the upper and outer edge near the base is somewhat 

 crested irregularly and asyrametricaJly sinuous, the right branch 

 more strongly bowed than the left, both curved upwards at the 

 tip ; in the 2 depressed, stout, trigonal and conical, contiguous, 

 depressed, gently hooked at the apex. 



c^ ? 



Length of body 20 mm, 18-20 mm. 



„ forceps 5 „ 4 „ 



SiKKiM: Darjihng {Brit. Mus.); Madras: Kodaikanal (coll. 

 Bolivar), Guynol, Nilgiri Hills [Pusa Coll.], Utakamand {Brit. 

 Mus., coll. Burr). 



T>i2^e in the Vienna Museum. 



The strongly dilated and crested last dorsal segment and the 

 upcurved, stout, dilated forceps readily distinguish this species. 



Genus CRANOPYGIA, Burr. 



Cranopygia, Burr, (08') p. 389. 

 Pygidicrana, Authors. 



Typb, Pygidicrana cumingi, Dohrn. 



Pronotum subrecrangular, the angles themselves rounded. 

 Penultimate ventral segment in d" narrow, lanceolate, the apex 

 itself, rounded ; last dorsal segment in $ with the external angles 

 on each side furnished with a compressed crested tubercle. 

 Forceps of 6 depressed and contiguous. Otherwise agrees with 

 the preceding genera. 



Range. Ceylon. 



This genus contains two Singhalese species characterized by the 

 nearly square pronotum and narrow penultimate ventral segment 

 of the male. 



