FORFIOIJLARIA OF THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 4-S:i 



Abdomen slender, yellow testaceous, last dorsal segment smooth, 

 quadrate, not tuberculate, narrower in the 5 . 



Feet yellow, pale. 



P^^gidium elongated in the cT, straight, rectangular, very faintly 

 emarginate on the apical l)order, the angles sharp ; in the Ç about half 

 as long as in the cT , the emargination somewhat stronger, the angles 

 sharper ; in the cT the pygidium is about half as long as the forceps. 



Forceps with the branches remote at the base : in the d slender, 

 nearly sj;raight, elongated, gradually incurved, the apices meeting, armed 

 on the inner margin at the base with two very small teeth ; in the J 

 the branches are somewhat stouter, straight, the apices themselves in- 

 curved, the inner margin an the basal half armed with a row of small 

 sharp teeth. 



New Guinea: Ins. Deslacs, 11)01. 1 cf, 1 Ç (Biro). 



This species, which is one of the smallest of the genus, approaches 

 PL thoracica & PL nigriceps, in the long & nearly straight forceps, & 

 projecting pygidium ; it differs in the armature of the forceps & shape 

 of the pygidium at the apex. 



Genus XV. CHAETOSPANIA Karsch. 



46. Ch. sendfulva (Borm,). — Java, 2 5 (Fruhstorfer). 



47. Ch. sp. ? — New Guinea : Erima, 1 89G, 1 5 (Biro). 



48. Ch. Stella sp. n. (Fig. 6. & ). 



Colore sordide fulvo, vel bruuueo ; ;inteuua3 lo-segiuentataB ; eh'tra alœque 

 nitida, minutissime punctulata, ilia brevia, apice truucata, hae valde prominen- 

 tes ; pedes sordide testacei ; abdomen parallelum, minutissime punctulatum, 

 plicis lateralibus vix perspicuis ; segmentum ultimum dorsale quadratum, uiti- 

 dum, margine postico recto, supra insertionem forcipis tuberculatum ; 9 medio 

 Impressum, quadratum. Pygidium c? valde prominens, lateribus in spinam acu- 

 tam productis, apice emarginato, angulis in spinas acutas productis, totum stellam 

 4-spinosam formáns ; j pai-vum, baud prominulum, rotundatum. Forcipis brac- 

 cbia c? elongata, gracilia, basi triquetra, subrecta, apicibus iucurvis, prope basin 

 margine interno deutibus tribus acutis armata ; o inermia, subrecta, parte basali 

 paullo excavata, deinde fortiora. 



Long, corporis cT 9'2 mm, 5 8 — 8"3 mm ; forcipis cf 4*7 mm. 

 J 3 — 3 '5 mm. 



Colour generally dirty brown, inclining towards darker anteriorly ; 

 antennae 15-segmentate, slightly paler towards the apex. 



Pronotum very sHghtly longer than broad, but nearly as broad as 

 the head, hexagonal, smooth. 



Elytra short, abruptly truncated posteriorly. 



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