64 PYGIDICEANID.^. 



pronotum ; the elytra are short ; the tarsi long and slender ; the 

 abdomen narrow and nearly parallel-sided. 



Range. Ceylon ; S. Africa. 



The type of this genus is P. litiirata, Stal, from South Africa 

 but P. aufjustata, from Ceylon, is placed here provisionally. 



25. Picrania angustata, Dohm. 



Pygidicrana angustata, Dohm, (63) p. o4 ; Borm. (00-) p. 23 ; Burr, 



'(01) p. 71; Kirhj, (04) p. 5. 

 Picrania angustata, Burr, (OS-") p. 390. 



Small, dark, greyish, with yellowish markings. Antennso 

 greyish yellow. Head smooth, globose, dark reddish brown, 

 marhled with yellowish ; sutures distinct ; posterior margin 

 truncate, not emarginate ; not broader than the prouotuin. 

 Pronotum rather long, narrow, parallel-sided, pale yellowish tes- 

 taceous, with two broad fuscous bands and a narrow dark line 

 along the suture. Scutellum narrow, pale. Elytra short, 

 greyish fuscous, with an oblique yellow discoidal spot and a narrow 

 yellowish stripe along the basal half of the sutui'e and along 

 the costa. Wings short, yellowisli. Legs short, pale, testaceous; 

 femora rather broad, femora and tibiae with broken black lines. 

 Abdomen rather slender, gradually widening posteriorly, dark 

 reddish brown, marbled with yellowish ; the whole apparently 

 grey owing to a short greyish pubescence. Last dorsal segment 

 not pubescent, not inflated, very finely rugulose, deep chestnut ; 

 posterior margin truncate, obliquely truncate at the sides. Penul- 

 timate ventral segment of the 6 narrow, truncate posteriorly, the 

 sides oblique ; of the $ trianq;ular, the apex rounded. Forceps 

 of S with the branches deep red with an orange spot near the base 

 above and beneath, depressed, rather slender, remote at base, 

 elongate and gently arcuate, with onn or two teeth on inner margin 

 about the middle and a stronger one near the apex ; in the 5 

 broad, finely rugulose, trigonal, subcontiguous throughout their 

 length, gradually tapering, erenulate along the inuer margin ; 

 apices hooked. 



Ceylon {Brit. Mus., Berlin Mus.). 



Type in the Berlin Museum. 



The approximately equal width of the head and pronotum, the 

 narrow parallel-sided body, the gently arcuate and remote forceps, 

 readily distinguish this species. It is so far only recorded from 

 Ce>lon and appears to be rare. There are Dohrn's types, two 

 females in the Berlin Museum, and one male in the British 

 Museum. 



