148 rOEFICULID^. 



This genus includes four species, all small in size and red or 

 black in colour. It is well separated from Chelisoches by the 

 smooth tibiae, ovate pronotum, and shorter antennoe. 



The only known Indian species is the type of the genus, H. fecf, 

 Borm. 



91. Hamaxas feae, Borm** (Fig. 88.) 



Chelisoches fete, Bormans, (94) p. 393, (00") p. 86; Burr, (99) p. 260 



(02) p. 484 ; Kirhy, (04) p. 33. 

 Hamaxas feae. Burr, (07') p. 134. 



Small; black, shading to orange; pubescent. Antennae with 

 19 segments, black with a pale ring before the apex. Head black, 

 Pronotum black, the sides narrowly bordered with orange. Elytra 

 ample and long, well rounded at the shoulders, very finely and 

 densely punctulate, black. Wings of the same colour and texture 

 as the elytra. Legs tawny orange ; tibiae smooth above. Abdomen 

 dark red, shading to blackish. Last dorsal segment of S transverse, 

 smooth, with a transverse oval depression near the posterior 

 margin, rugulose ; in $ narrowed. Pygidium of S short, transverse, 

 tumid, posterior margin sinuate, the angles pointed; in the $ 

 scarcely visible. Forceps with branches reddish ; in the S remote 

 at the base, slender, elongate, gently arcuate, with a short sharp 

 tooth near the base ; in $ short, simple, straight, and contiguous. 



Length of body 8 mm. 7-9 mm. 



., forceps .... 3*5-4-5 mm. 1-25-1-75 mm. 



Burma : Karen-ni, Keba District, 3000-3700 ft., v./xii. {Genoa 



Mus.). 



Also known from New Guinea, Xew Zealand, and Mentawei Is. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. 



This species may be recognized by the uniform black of the head, 

 pronotum, elytra and wings, with rust-red body. It is only the 

 distribution of the colours which separates the four species of the 

 genus, and very likely it will be necessary to unite them into one. 



H. fece has a superticial likeness to Prorens melanocepJiahis, from 

 which it differs in the form of the forceps, among other things. 



Subfamily XL ANECHURIN^. 



This group contains a number of sturdy mountain-loving 

 earwigs, "with broad sternal plates, dilated abdomen, forceps remote 

 at the base and often curiously curved and twisted. Most of the 

 genera are confined to the Old "World (except Australia) but 

 some aberrant forms occur in America. 



