138 FOEFICULID.E. 



Easy to recognize by the colour of the forceps. P. ludel-ingi, 

 Dohrn, is a Malayan species that may occur in India; it resembles 

 F. simidans, but has a pale ring on the antennte and the tooth of 

 the forceps is A\eaker aud nearer the apex ; it may be a A^ariety or 

 race of P. simulans. De Bormans separates P. modestus as a sub- 

 species ; in this the wings are abortive and the tooth of the 

 forceps often obsolete. 



S3. Proreus melanocephalus, Dolim. (Fig. 86.) 



Lobophora melanocepbala, Dohrn, (05) p. 75. 



Chelisoches melanocephalus, Sciidd. (76) p. 308 ; Bonn. (88) p. 440, 



(94) p. 392, (00-) p. 89 ; £nrr, (99) p. 258 (nee Ayin. Mag. X. H. 



(6) XX. p. 315, 1897), (05') p. 28, (07^) p. 209; Burr, (08^) 



p. 116 ; Kirhy, (04) p. 33. 

 Proreus melanocephalus, Burr, (07') p. 130. 



Of small size ; general colour tawny. Antennae with (?) 15 

 segments, brown, sometimes paler near the base ; segments rather 

 thick ; third not very long ; fourth half as long as third, cylindrical ; 

 fifth shorter than third ; sixth equal to third ; all cylindrical. 

 Head very dark brown or black ; smooth, i-ather depressed, 

 sutures fairly distinct. Pronotum slightly longer than wide, 

 truncate anteriorly, sides straight, hinder border broadly rounded, 

 slightly broader posteriorly than anteriorly ; deep orauge-yellow. 

 Elytra ample, long, smooth, tawny. Wings long, smooth, tawny. 

 Legs tawny ; tibite with upper surface flattened and furrowed 

 about the apical third. Abdomen smooth, blackish red, lateral 

 tubercles distinct. Last dorsal segment of S transverse, posterior 

 margin truncate and finely crenulate ; in $ narrower, smooth. 

 Penultimate ventral segment of S and $ broadly rounded. Pygi- 

 dium of S very short, transverse, depressed, posterior margin 

 incrassate, darkened and gently emarginate in the middle ; in $ 

 short, obtuse. Forceps with branches reddish tawny ; in the S of 

 two types : («) short, broad, depressed, gently incurved and blunt 

 at the points, with a sharp tooth in the middle ; (6) more slender 

 and elongate, with a short conical sharp tooth quite near the base ; 

 straight at first, then gently arched inwards, with a blunt tooth 

 in the apical third ; in the 2 simple, straight and contiguous. 



d 2 



Length of body 8-9 mm. 8 mm. 



„ forceps 1-2-5 „ 1 -5 „ 



Teanquebae; Bombay: Mahim, "under plantain roots" {Pihsa 

 coll.); Bengal: Barisol, Munshiganj, Pusa, "in roots of a cane, 

 6/ii./05 " {Pusa coll.) ; Sikkim : Darjiling {Paris Mus.) ; Uppee 

 Assam : {Ind. 2Ius.) ; Buema : Teinzo, v. {Genoa Mus.). 



The type was in Westermann's collection ; where it is now is 

 not certain. 



Differs from its congeners in its small size and uniform tawny 



