174 lORFICULID.!. 



Length of bod}^ '. . . 7'5 mm. 



,, forceps 1'5 ., 



SiKKiM: Darjiling {Pm'is 2Ins.). 



Tijpc in the Paris Musenm. 



Eesembles the common European F. auricularia in colour, hut 

 different in structure and much smaller. The nearly straight 

 forceps with the straight unarmed dilated part distinguish it. The 

 antennae are missing in the unique type specimen. 



111. Forficula planicollis, Kirhy.^ 



Forficula planicollis, Kirby, (91) p. 526, (04) p. 63; Burr, (04) 

 p. 230, (07') p. 115, (07^) p. 210, (08^) p. 121. 



Small and not stout. General colour dark castaneous and black. 

 Antennte dark fuscous, with 12 segments, the fourth not very 

 short. Head dark reddish or black, smooth, tumid and shining; 

 sutures indistinct. Pronotum slightly transverse, anterior margin 

 truncate, sides parallel, posterior margin rounded ; smooth, median 

 sulcus fairly distinct ; prozona tumid ; metazona flat ; black, the 

 sides paler. Elytra and wings long and ample, the latter nearly 

 as long as the former ; dark testaceous. Legs reddish testaceous. 

 Abdomen fairly broad, densely punctulate, dark chestnut ; lateral 

 tubercles black and distinct ; narrowed tow ards the apex in the S , 

 typical in the $ . Last dorsal segment of S short, transverse, 

 rather narrowed apically, depressed, with the tumid elevations 

 depressed and indistinct. Penultimate ventral segment convex. 

 Pygidium indistinguishable. Eorceps of S with the branches 

 flattened but not sulcate ; dilated part short, only extending 

 through a quarter the length of forceps, the inner margin straight 

 and unarmed, ending gradually as the branches are attenuate, 

 then strongly arched : the brandies are bowed from the base itself, 

 the apices meeting ; in the $ typical. 



^S 2 



Length of body 7"9 mm. 7*9 mm. 



,, forceps .... 2-2-75 „ 2 „ 



Bhutan : INIaria Basti (Paris IIus.) • Sikkim : Sandakhu, 

 11,900 ft. (Lul. Has.), Darjiling (Paris Mus.) ; United 

 Pkotinces : Bhim Tal, Ivumaun, 4500 ft., "feeding on the 

 flowers of stinging nettles" (Lid. Mas.). 



Tifpc in the British Museum. 



Kirby's type is in poor condition ; the small size and black head 

 help to distinguish it ; the rather broad body, simple last dorsal 

 segment of the male, and above all, the simple and strongly bowed 

 forceps, which are quite unarmed, with short dilated part, also 

 easily distinguish it. 



Dr. Annandale took this species sweeping in grass and low 

 herbage, at an elevation of 6000 feet at Darjiling, in September. 



