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2. Dicrana dravidia, sp. n. 



Fusco-nigra, fulvo-variegata : forcipis bracchia & basi ipso 

 contigua, turn fortiter arcuata, apice bimucronata, attingentia. 



Long, corporis . . 19 mm. 



,, forcipis .. 3-5 



Small: greyish black, varied with tawny: antennae greyish: 

 head smooth, black, marbled with tawny : pronotum as broad as 

 the head, longer than broad, parallel-sided, posterior border 

 straight, all angles rounded, black, with a median tawny band and 

 narrow tawny edging: scutellum tawny: el5^tra black, with a 

 broad, oblique broad pale tawny band : legs tawny, marbled with 

 black : abdomen greyish and black, densely clothed with a golden 

 pubescence : last tergite ample, smooth : ninth sternite broadly 

 rounded, entire; forceps stout and depressed, trigonal, stout and 

 broad at the base and subcontiguous at the base itself, arcuate to 

 enclose a lozenge-shaped area, the points meeting and bimu- 

 cronate: inner margin crenulate near the base. 



5. India : Madura District : Shembaganur, i cf (Father 

 Astruc, cm.). 



The forceps readily distinguish them from other Oriental spe- 

 cies: in appearance it recalls the African D. frontalis and D. sepa- 

 rata. 



Family LABIDURIDAE. 



Subfamily ALLOSTETHlNAE. 



Genus Gonolabidura, Zacher. 



I. Gonolabidura minor, sp. n. 



Statura minore: G. piligeri vicina : differt statura multo mi- 

 nore, sculptura abdominis crebriori, segment© ultimo dorsali late- 

 ribus carinatis. 



(f 

 Long, corporis . ; 11 mm. 



,, forcipis .. I '5 



Small: colour red-brown: antennae greyish, basal 2 seg- 

 ments yellow and apical ones whitish ; about 15 segments ; 3rd. 

 clyindrical, about twdce as long as broad; 2nd. much shorter, 

 obconical, the rest gradually lengthening, form pear-shaped to 

 long ovate. Head smooth, shining, sutures faint: pronotum 

 transverse, rectangular : meso- and metanota larvae : sternum 

 typical: legs yellow: abdomen chocolate brown, hairy, densely 

 but very finely punctulate : sides of y-gth segments convex and 

 finely rugulose : last dorsal segment ample, smooth, with a keel 

 along each side corresponding to the lateral ridge of the forceps : 

 penultimate ventral segment rounded: metaparameres lanceolate, 



