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Length 4 mm. Colour ^^ellow, with a dark violet longitudinal 

 streak along each side of the body and head; dark markings at 

 the base and tip of first antennal segment, on hind thighs and on 

 all the feet. 



Locality. — Bur mo-Siamese frontier : Myawadi, Amherst Dis- 

 trict, 900 ft. {F. H. Gravely), one specimen, 24-26 Nov., 1911. 

 Ind. Mus. -xf'. 



This species is related to Paronella borneri, Imms (1912, pp. 

 106 8), from Nepal, which it resembles in its very elongate feelers 

 and in the form of the mucro. It differs in the relative lengths 

 of the antennal segments and in the details of colouration. P. 

 borneri is also yellow with violet markings, but these do not 

 form continuous lateral bands along the body. P. dahlii, Schaffer 

 (1898. pp. 409-10), from Ralum, Bismarck Archipelago, belongs 

 to the same group. 



CYPHODERINI. 



These are blind, pale, scaled spring-tails living in underground 

 situations such as caves and ants' nests, or beneath stones. The 

 spring has rigid dentes and, as a rule, elongate mucrones. 



Cyphoderus, Nicolet. 

 Cyphoderus simulans, Imms. 



Locality. — Lower Burma : Kawkareik, x\mherst District (F. H. 

 Gravely), three specimens, 19-20 Nov. 19 11. Ind. Mus. HV. 



The types of this species were described by Imms (1912, pp. 

 115-16, pi. xii, figs. 90, 91) from specimens taken in the Khayon 

 Caves, near Moulmein, Lower Burma. 



Cyphodcropsis, gen. nov. 



Body scaled, resembling Cyphoderus in aspect, eyes absent. 

 Feet with normal toothed claw and simple empodial appendage 

 (figs. 36, 37). Dens rigid, tapering, with a double row of strong 

 spines and a delicate distal scale-appendage ; mucro elongate and 

 narrow with terminal and dorsal teeth (fig. 38). Type C. kempt, 

 sp. nov. 



This remarkable genus seems to be clearly referable to the 

 Cyphoderini, most members of which it resembles in its general 

 appearance, and in the structure of the feelers and mucro. The 

 foot-claws and empodial appendages are, however, of the simple 

 type usual among the Entomobryini and Paronellini, while the 

 dentes, with their series of teeth and their scale- appendages, recall 

 strikingly those of the latter tribe. Cyphodcropsis may be regarded 

 therefore as in many respects a connecting link between the typi- 

 cal Cyphoderini and the Paronellini. The features of Cyphoderus 

 and allied genera have been recently well set forth by Borner 

 (1913)- 



