172 fobficuliDjX:. 



108. Forficula lucasi, Dohm. (Fig. 59.) 



ForlicLila lucusi, Dohrn,(6o) p, 98 ; Scudd. (76) p. 315; de Bormans, 

 (88) p. 448, (94) p. 408, (GO-) p. 121 ; Kmuss, (95) p. 99, fig. 2 ; 

 Jacobson ^- Bianki, (03) p. 27 ; Sevmiov, (02) p. 195 ; Kirby, (04) 

 p. 51; Burr, (07^) p. 113, (08^) p. 120. 



Size medium, fairly stout. General colour deep reddish 

 chestnut ; the head, pronotum, discal spot of elytra, and wings 

 reddish or yellow. Antennae with 11 segments, rather thick, 

 brownish yellow. Head tumid, posterior margin of occiput some- 

 what emargiuate, smooth, reddish or yellowish, sutures indistinct. 

 Pronotum slightly broader than long, the anterior margin truncate, 

 sides straiglit and posterior border widely rounded ; red or yellow ; 

 depressed, with no distinct prozona; sides flat. Elytra ample, 

 truncate apically, deep red with a large oval pale yellow, or pale 

 reddish, spot on the disc. Wings long, yellow or reddish. Legs 

 testaceous. Abdomen reddish chestnut, exceedingly minutely 

 punctulate. Last dorsal segment of S transverse, rectangular, 

 finely punctulate, not granulose, the hinder border incrassate in 

 the middle ; that of $ typical, angustate. Penultimate ventral 

 segment of 6 strongly convex, rounded. Pygidium of 6 very 

 short, blunt, tubercular. Forceps of c? with the branches reddish, 

 shaded with black, strongly depressed, elongate ; dilated part 

 extending for half the length, the iinier margin quite straight, 

 finely denticulate, terminated with a small, blunt, almost obsolete 

 tooth ; beyond this strongly attenuate, regularly arcuate, the 

 apices meeting ; in the $ contiguous, straight, unarmed, incurved 

 at the apex. 



Length of body 12-14 mm. 11-12 mm. 



„ forceps 5-6 „ 2-5-3-5 „ 



Burma: Teinzo, v. {Genoa Mus.). 



Also occurs in Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, and the Sahara. 



Type undefined, in Paris or A-'ienna. 



In the Oxford Museum there is an undoubted male of this 

 species labelled, obviously incorrectly, " Brazil " and " Forficula 

 himacidata, Fal.-Beauv.=eh'gans, Burm." The colour of these two 

 earwigs is the same, but the forceps etc. are totally different. 



109. Forficula celeris, Burr* (Fig. 60.) 

 Forficula celeris, Burr, (05) p. 31, (07') p, 113. 



Size small, but rather stout. General colour dark reddish 

 castaneous ; the elytra and wings uniform testaceous. Antennae ?; 

 the first five segments reddish brown. Head tumid, smooth, dark 

 red, sutures fine but distinct. Pronotum slightly broader than 

 long, ample, black, edged with reddish ; anterior margin truncate ; 

 sides straight and parallel, reflexed ; posterior margin widely 

 rounded ; prozona somewhat tumid ; metazona flattened. Elytra 



