136 rOKFICULIDiE. 



Bengal: Calcutta (Dmssels 31us.); Madras; Travancore (var. 

 stratiotkus ; coll. Burr), Trichinopoli {coll. Bolivar) ; Ceylon : 

 Kottanda {Willey; coll. Burr), Galle, x. (Fletcher; coll. Burr); 

 Burma : Bhamo, viii.; Karen-ni, Keba Distr., 3000-3700 ft., v./xii. 

 (Genoa Mus.). 



This species is abundant throughout tlie Oriental Region ; it 

 is continually reported from islands in the Malay Peninsula, and 

 has extended its distribution, doubtless through shipping, to the 

 east coast of Africa and New Zealand ; it has even been taken at 

 Kew Gardens in Enghand. 



It varies considerably in size and in colour, and intermediate 

 forms are continually met with. The large, umber-coloured 

 form has been described as distinct by Kebn under the name 

 stratioticus. 



Ch. morio is abundant in wet districts in the sugar plantations 

 in the JSandwich Islands, and an interesting account is given by 

 Terry in the report of the work of the Experimental Station of 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association (05) (see Introduction, 

 p. 16). It is an extremely active species and appears to be 

 diurnal, Terry describing it as running over the leaves in search 

 of insect food during the hottest part of the day. In Hawaii it 

 abounds in the moist mountain ridges and valleys and also in 

 many of the elevated plantations. It is scarce in the dry and 

 irrigated cane-areas. 



Genus PROREUS, Btirr. 



Troreus, Burr, (07^) p. 129. 

 Chelisoches, Scuddcr, (7(j) p. 295 (pars). 



Ttpe, Forficxda simulans, Stal. 



Closely related to Chelisoches, but the antennas are more slender, 

 and the fourth segment is ovate or cylindrical, and not thickened 

 or clubbed. The species are smaller and weaker, and the colour is 

 almost invariably some shade of red or brown. The forceps are 

 of the same type as in Chelisoches, but in the typical species the 

 branches are slender. 



7\thle of Sj^ecies. 



1. Forceps elongate and slender. 

 2. Head brick-red ; el3^tra yellow, 



with fuscous stripes simulans, Sta.1, p. lo7. 



2.2. Head blacldsh ; elytrn tawny . . mel(niocephahis, Dohrn, var., 

 3.1. Forceps short, broad and flat. [p. 138. 



2. Head blackisli ; elytra tawny . . 'inclanocephahis,T)o\\vn,'^.l'i9>. 

 2.2. Head and elytra uniform dull 



brown ritscmcp, Borm., p. 139. 



