PROREUS. 



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82. Proreus simulans, Stdl. (Fig. 85.) 

 Forficula simiilans, «/!5/, ((50) p. .",02. 



Chelisoches simulans, Scudd. (76) i^. .'509; i^ar^n. (^«) P- ,4^0' (?f 

 p. .391, (00'^) p.^S7 ; i?«/v, (02) p. 484, (07^) p. 209, (08») p. 116 ; 



Chelisoc'hes ludekingi. Burr, (nee Dolirn, nee Borm.) (00^) p. 51. 



Forficula modesta, i^tSl, ((50) p. .302.^ 



Lobopliora modesta, Dohni, ((!.",) p. 74. 



Chelisoches modestu.s, -VcMfW. (7(5) p. .'50b ; 7ur/>//, (04) p. o-j. 



Chelisoches simulans, snbsp. modestus, Bonn. (00') p. 88. 



Proreus simulans, i/wrr, (07') p. 1..51. 



Of medium size and slender build ; general colour orange-red 

 varied with tawny. Antennae brown, slender, with i:0 segments ; 

 third long and cylindrical, fourth decidedly shorter than thu-d, 

 cylindrical; fifth almost as long as third, the rest long, all cy- 

 lindrical and slender. Head clear brick-red, smooth, tumid, the 

 sutures distinct. Pronotum a little narrower than the head, 

 truncate anteriorly, slightly widened posteriorly, hinder margin 

 broadly rounded; prozona somewhat tumid, orange-red; side.? 

 and metazoua depressed, clear yellow. Elytra long, rather narrow, 

 smooth, clear orange-yellow, with a narrow dark band along 

 the suture and the costal fold. M^'ings prominent, of the same 

 colour as the elytra (abortive in the var. modestus). Legs rather 

 short, orange-yellow ; tibia) furrowed only in apical third. Abdomen 

 broad, depressed and parallel-sided, deep cliestnut-red, darker near 

 the base ; lateral tubercles distinct ; finely punctulate. Last dorsal 

 segment of 6 ample, rectangular, smooth, clear red, postenor 

 margin truncate and darkened, with two small compressed tubercles 

 in the middle, and crenulated obtuse tubercles on each side ; m the 

 2 similar but somewhat narrowed, the tubercles obsolete. Penul- 

 timate ventral segment of d broadly rounded. Pygidium of both 

 sexes very short, obtuse, transverse, not prominent. Forceps with 

 the branches in the d remote at the base, depressed but not dilated, 

 rather slender, with a sharp triangular tooth on the inner margin 

 at one-third from the base (occasionally obsolete) and sometimes a 

 second smaller tooth near the apex ; elongate and gently arched 

 inwards ; in the 2 remote at base, almost straight, the whole of 

 inner margin crenulate. 



Length of body 10-12 mm. 8-5-10 mm. 



,, forceps 3 „ «5 ,» 



Bombay : Pusa (Pusa coll.) ; Be>.'Gal : Calcutta, "at light," xi. 

 (Annandale, Ind. Miis.) ; Burma: Kokarit, i./ii., Eangoou, xu. 

 (Fea, Genoa Mus.). 



Widely distributed throughout the Oriental Eegion. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



