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Type iu the Stettin Museum (?) ; type of r/reeni in the author's 

 collection. 



Mr. Green found this insect in the adult state in May, and 

 from September to November, and larvas in June and July. 

 It is found under stones and loose bark, and often comes into 

 buildings. 



24. Cranopygia nietneri, DoJim. (Fig. 15.) 



Pvgidicrana nietneri, Dohni, (03) p. 53 ; Scudd. (76) p. 328 ; Bonn. 



'(00'^) p. 21 ; Bun; (01) p. 70; Kirhy, (04) ix 5. 

 Cranopygia nietneri, Bun; (08') p. 389. 



Stature medium ; colour dark testaceous. Antennte dark testa- 

 ceous, typical, with 31 segments ; each segment is fuscous basally 

 and yellowish apically. Head reddish yellow, rather tumid, 

 sutures distinct ; eyes black. Pronotum almost as broad as the 

 head, rounded anteriorly, truncate posteriorly, the angles rounded, 

 sides parallel ; dark fuscous, with whitish median line and borders. 

 Scutelium rather long, fusco-testaceous. Elytra rather short, 

 blackish. Wings abbreviated. Sternal plates yellow. Legs tes- 

 taceous, slender ; tarsi very slender. Abdomen reddish, slender 

 at base, widening gradually towards the apex ; with a dense fine 

 yellowish pubescence. Last dorsal segment red, smooth, large, 

 quadrate; the external angles are compressed into a blackened 

 crest which is produced posteriorly to a point ; posterior margin 

 black, convex, truncate in the middle. Penultimate venti-al seg- 

 ment narrowly rounded at the apex. Eorceps with branches 

 yellowish, darker at the margin, blacker at the tips ; subcon- 

 tiguous at the base, depressed and wide through the first half of 

 their length, then abruptly attenuate and arcuate, the right branch 

 more so than the left and armed with a strong blunt tooth in the 

 middle of the curve. 



c? 



Length of body 17 mm. 



„ forceps .... 8 „ 



Ceylon : Peradeniya (Brit. Mus., coll. Dolirn, coll. Burr), Diya- 

 talawa, 12.ix.08 {Fletcher):, Watawella (C'o?Ze«). 



Type in the Berlin Museum. 



Somewhat resembles Dicrana Icallipyga., but differs in the colora- 

 tion, the weaker armature of the last dorsal segment, and the less 

 curved almost horizontal forceps. 



Genus PICRANIA, Bxirr. 



Picrania, Burr, (OS^) p. 390. 

 Pvgidicrana, Authors. 



Type, Forficesila liturata, Stal. 



Agrees generally with the preceding genera, but the head is 

 narrow, being scarcely as broad as, and never broader than, the 



