94 LABIDURID-E. 



49. Forcipula quadrispinosa, Dohm. (Fig. 28.) 



Labidura quadrispinosa, Lohrn, (63) p. 311 ; Bonn. (88) p. 434, 



(94) p. 377. 

 Forcipula quadrispinosa, Bol. (97) p. 283 ; Bortn. (00-) p. 30 ; Burr, 



(01) p. 323, (04) p. 289, (05^) p. 27, (073) p. .510. 



Large ; blackish chocolate. Antennae tawny. Head black. 

 Pronotum square, black, sides tawny. Elytra rich chocolate- 

 brown, very dark, finely granulose, not pubescent. AVings 

 resemble the elytra. Legs tawny, often with darker shading. 

 Abdomen black, finely granulose, hinder margins of the segments 

 milled ; sides of segments 3-6 armed with thin spines. Last 

 dorsal segment square, smooth, with a median impression, the 

 hinder margin truncate. In the $ the spines are absent and the 

 last dorsal segment is somewhat narrower. Forceps with the 

 branches remote at the base in the d , trigonal, slender and 

 elongate, bowed so as to enclose an elliptical area, nearly meeting at 

 about two-thirds of their length at which point there is sometimes 

 a blunt tooth; the apical tliird straight and the point hooked. 

 In the 5 the branches are subcontiguous, stouter, straight, crenu- 

 late along the inner margin near the base, with a strong blunt 

 tooth on the inner margin near the apex. 



SiKKiM {Ind. Mus.) ', Bhutan : Maria Basti {coll. Burr) ; 

 Bengal: Calcutta (Brussels Mus.); Madras: Tranquebar (cqU. 

 Dohm); Travancore, Tenmalai (Annandale; Ind. Mus., coll. Burr); 

 Ceylon (coll. Dohm) ; Btjema : Bhamo, viii., Katha, ii./vi. 

 (Genoa Mns.). 



Occurs also in Siam, Cambodia and Annam. 



TyjJe undefined, in Paris or Berlin. 



50. Forcipula lurida, Bol. (Figs. 29 & 92.) 



Forcipula quadrispinosa, var. lurida, Bol. (97) p. 283 ; Bortn. (00^) 



p. 31. 

 Forcipula lurida, Eirbi/, (04) p. 9. 



Resembles typical F. quadrispinosa, but is entirely lurid in 

 colour, with a reddish oblique keel on the sides of the segments 

 2-5 (fide Bolivar, 3-6?) of the abdomen of the males, the keels 

 being produced into a tooth, which is crenulate beyond the middle. 

 Forceps very long. 



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Length of body 23 mm. 



„ forceps .... 22 , 



