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41. L. curvicauda (Motsch.1* — New Guinea: Seleo. Berlinhafen. 

 Simbang, Sattelberg, Friedrich- Wilhelmshafen, Ei'ima, Stephansort, Ins. 

 Deslacs (Brno). 



42. L. sicaria sp. n. (Fig. 4. cT). 



Gracilis, baud nitida; colore totó brunneo ; antennae 12-segmentatae, uni- 

 colores ; alae vix prominentes ; pygidium obtuso-triangulare, apice recto-margi- 

 uato ; forcipis bracchia cf basi remota, regulariter ovato -incurva, medio margine 

 interno dente forti armata. cf $ . 



Long, corporis d 4*5 mm, ç 5*4 mm ; forcipis d" 1'5 mm, Ç 1 mm. 



Colour uniform brown. Head slightly darker. 



j\ptenn8e 1 2-segmentate, uniform brown. 



Pronotum slightly narrower than the head. 



Elytra short, smooth, dull brown. 



Wings abbreviated, scarcely visible. 



Abdomen elongated, brown, lateral tubercles hardly visible. Last 

 dorsal segment oblong, narrow, slightly, depressed in the middle, with a 

 narrow sulcus, with no tubercles. 



Pygidium cf obtuse, triangular, the apex cut straight. In the Ç 

 obtusely triangular. 



Forceps : cf with branches remote at the base, rather stout, straight, 

 regularly incurved, forming an oval, the apices meeting; armed on the 

 middle of the inner margin with a stout sharp tooth ; in the Ç straight, 

 subcontiguous, simple, unarmed. Entirely reddish brown. 



New Guinea: Sattelberg (Huon Golf), 1899, 1 cf, 1 ? (Bmól 



This species is most nearly allied to L. nigrella Dubr. from which 

 it differs in colour & in the toothed forceps. 



Genus XIV. PLATYLABIA Dohbn. 



43. P. thoracica Dohrn. — New Guinea : Ei'ima (Biro). 



44. PL sp. ? — New Guinea : Erima, 1 j (Biro). 



45. PI. quadrata sp. n. (Fig. 5. d). 



Statura minore ; rufo-testacea ; capite, elytris absque nigris ; antennie 

 fusco-testaceae ; pedes pallide-testacei ; pygidium prominulum, quadratum, apice 

 levissime rotundato-subemarginatum, angulis acutis, apud cf elongatum, apud 

 2 dimidio brevius ; forcipis bracchia basi remota ; cf subrecta, sensim incurva, 

 parte basali margine interno dentibus parvis 2 armata; ? paulo robustiora, 

 recta, apicibus incurvis, parte basali margine interno denticulata. cf ç . 



Long, corporis cf 4 mm, j 3*5 mm ; forcipis 1 mm. 

 Colour entirely reddish testaceous, the antennae slightly darker, the 

 head, elytra & wings black. 



Body clothed with pale fine hairs. 



