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nourishment, in which the wiugs are not developed ; the forceps 

 are nearly straight, merely gently undulated, the teeth obsolete, 

 the first abdominal spine almost or entirely obsolete. To this we 

 may give the name minor, though it is hard to say whether it is 

 an ill-developed form of this species or of F. imgnax. 



Length of body. ... 20 mm. 21 mm. 10-14 mm. 

 „ forceps.. 12 „ . 6 „ 5-5-6 ,, 



SiKKiM {Inch Mas.) ; Nepal : Chitlong, Pharping {Ind. Mus.) ; 

 United Provinces : Kumaun, Bhim Tal {lad. Mus., coll. Burr) ; 

 Bengal: Calcutta, at light (/nr?. Mus.). 



Var. minor, nov. 



Nepal : Soondrijal {Ind. Mus.) ; United Provinces : Kumaun,. 

 Bhim Tal {Lid. Mus., coll. Burr). 



Type in Vienna Museum. 



According to Dubrony, this species occurs in Abyssinia, but 

 the record refers to an African species, F. gariazzi, Borelli. 



48. Forcipula pugnax, Kirhy.* (Fig. 27.) 



Labidura pugnax, Kirby, (91) p. 510, pi. 12. fig. 1 ; Borm. (94) 



p. 377. 

 Forcipula pugnax, Borm. (00^) p. 443, (00-) p. 30 ; Burr, (04) p. 287, 



Size large; colour deep chestnut-brown or blackish, with^a 

 close yellowish pubescence. Antennae tawny. Head black. Pro- 

 notum square, black, with yellow borders. Elytra dark chocolate- 

 brown, exceedingly finely punctulate, pubescent. Wings of the 

 same colour, smooth. Legs uniform tawny. Abdomen blackish 

 brown, finely granulose, hinder borders of the segments milled ; 

 sides of segments 3-6 in the J armed with recurved spines ; the 

 one nearest the base is the biggest and they regularly decrease 

 posteriorly. Last dorsal segment of J smooth, with a median 

 impression, truncate posteriorly. Forceps of S «'ith branches 

 remote at the base, reddish, trigonal, straight for about two-thirds 

 their length, then abruptly bent inwards, with a blunt tooth on 

 the inner margin at the angle of the bend, then straight, simple, 

 hooked at the points. 



6 

 Length of body. . . . 20-5 mm. 



„ forceps.. 12-14-5 mm. 



Punjab : Kangi*a Valley {Brit. Mus.) ; Bhutan : Maria Ba^ti 

 {coll. Burr) ; AsSAM : Kurseong {coll. Burr) ; Burma : Eangoon,, 

 v.-vii. {Genoa Mus.). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This species is closely allied to F. trispinosa ; it only differs in 

 its browner colour, in having four abdominal spines instead of 

 three, and in having no tooth in tlie middle of the forceps, and 

 only a blunt one at the angle. 



