134 rOEFICULID^. 



Burma : Senmyingyan, ii. {Genoa cf- Brii. 3fus.), Karen-ni, 

 Keba District, 3000-4300 ft., v/xii. {Genoa JItts.); Tenasserim : 

 Thagata, iv. 



Also from Sarawak, New Guinea. 



I'l/pe iu Genoa Museum. 



De Bormans reports an aberration of the male, in which the 

 forceps are only of half the usual length and unusually thick and 

 strong, with the powerful basal tooth situated at one third of the 

 way down the forceps. In the author's collection, there is one of 

 the females taken by Fea in Karen-ni in which the head is brick- 

 red, the body orange-red, the forceps red, and the posterior 

 femora orange. This is probably a form of xanthochroism due to 

 deficient nourishment, as the forceps are weak and one branch is 

 atrophied. 



This species resembles a diminutive Chelisochella superha, but 

 the keel on the elytra is very short, and the forceps of the 

 female are quite simple. Otherwise the form and colour are 

 almost exactly the same. 



In the female the segments of the antennae are less markedly 

 clavate than in the male. 



Genus CHELISOCHES, Smdder. 



Clielisoclies, Scudder, (76) p. 295. 



Lobophora, Serville, (-"iO) p. 32 (preoccupied iu Lepidoptera, 

 Curtis, 1825). — Type, Forticula morio, Fabr. 



Type, Forficula morio, Fabr, 



Size medium ; antennae with 15-20 segments ; third fairly long, 

 fourth clubbed or conical, about half as long as the third ; fifth 

 longer than fourth ; fifth and fourth united slightly longer than 

 third, the rest elongate, subconical. Head tumid, sutures fairly 

 distinct. Pronotum as broad as the head, truncate anteriorly, the 

 -sides gently diverging as it is widened posteriorly ; posterior 

 margin broadly rounded. Elytra ample, smooth, no costal keel. 

 Wings well developed. Prosternum parallel-sided, slightly con- 

 stricted near the base. Mesosternum nearly square, truncate 

 posteriorly. Metasteimum ti-ansverse, truncate posteriorly. Legs 

 rather short ; femora not very stout ; tibiae flattened, furrowed 

 in the apical half above ; tarsi very short, very pubescent, rather 

 broad. Abdomen parallel-sided, rather depressed, lateral tubei'cles 

 distinct ; last dorsal segment of d" transverse, rectangular ; in 

 the 2 shghtly narrowed. Penultimate ventral segment broadly 

 rounded in both sexes. Pygidium of J small, of $ larger, but not 

 very prominent. Forceps with the branches in the cJ depressed, 

 remote at base, generally stout, more or less elongate, depressed, 

 simple. 



Range. Tropical Asia and Australia. 



As now restricted this genus only contains about half a dozen 

 species of which only one is known to occur in India. 



