FORFIC'ULA. 



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The species is easy to recognize by its intense uniform black 

 colour, with no variation from" the tip of the anteunse to the tarsi 

 and the forceps. 



102. Forficula mogul, Burr* (Fig. 55.) 



Forficula mogul, Burr, (04) p. 321, (07^) p. Ul, (08^) p. 121. 



Stature large and robust. General colour dark reddish casta- 

 neous. Anteunce (?). Head depressed, the sutures distinct, pos- 

 terior margin somewhat sinuate ; ferruginous, varied with blackish. 

 Pronotum transverse; the four sides parallel and straight, the 

 angles rounded; deep blackish chestnut, the sides translucent 

 yellow; prozona somewhat tumid, with fairly distinct median 

 sulcus ; metazona flattened ; sides flat. Elytra smooth and ample, 

 deep chestnut brown. Wings long and smooth, dark brown, 

 shaded with blackisli towards the apex where there is a minute 

 yellowish dot. Legs brown, rather slender ; tarsi slim and elon- 

 gate. Abdomen deep chocolate-brown, very finely punctulate, 

 the posterior margins of the segments somewhat iucrassate in 

 the J ; ventral surface paler and smoother ; lateral tubercles 

 distinct. Anal segment of d rectangular, distinctly broader than 

 long, smooth ; posterior margin truncate and tumid over the 

 insertion of the forceps ; in the 5 similar, but slightly narrower 

 apically. Pygidium of 6 depressed, obtuse, parallel-sided, very- 

 small. Porceps of d with the branches depressed throughout 

 their length, but only dilated near the base, this dilated part short 

 and gradually dying out ; inner margin denticulate near the base, 

 then attenuate, very long, almost straight and unarmed ; in the $ 

 simple, straight and unarmed. 



6 ? 



Length of body 16 mm. 16 mm. 



,, forceps .... 11 „ 4 „ 



SiKKiM : Darjiling (Paris 3Ius.). 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



This species somewhat resembles F. ruficoUis from the western 

 shores of the Mediterranean, but the head is not entirely black, 

 the pronotum not so broad, the wings well developed, the elytra 

 not spotted, and the dilated part of the forceps shorter and not 

 ending abruptly, but gradually. 



103. Forficula beelzebub, Burr** (Fig. 56.) 



Ohelisoches beelzebub, Burr, (02^) p. 51 ; Kirb)/, (04) p. 33. 

 Forficula beelzebub, Burr, (04) p. 322, (Oo) p. 29, (07') p. Ill, (07') 

 p. 210, (08=^) p. 121. 



Stature smaller and more slender. Colour uniform, deep 

 blackish red. Anteunse blackish brown, the segments propor- 

 tionately short. Head smooth, convex, sutures obsolete, pos- 

 terior margin truncate ; clear red or almost black. Pronotum 



