296 Mr. M. Burr's Observations on 



Abdomen latum ; segmentis 2 et 3 tuberculis lateralibus in- 

 structis ; segmentum ultimum dorsale magnum, latum, Lneve, supra 

 insertionem forcipis utrinque tuberculo obtiiso instructvim ; pygidium 

 breve, latum, transversum, margine postico in tubercula valida acuta 

 producto ; forcipis braccliia basi remota, sat validi, depressa, laivia, 

 brevia, incurva, margine interno medio dentibus parvis acutis duobus 

 arniata, apice attingentia. ^ . 



Long, corporis ... 7 mm. 

 „ forcipis . . . rs ,, 



Hah. West Africa, Assini {dc Bormcms) ; Fernando 

 Po {L. Conraclt, 1901. 2^,3?. Mus. Paris). 



In the short forceps, this species approaches t^. pcirvi- 

 coUis and S. similis, but differs in the larger and broader 

 pronotum ; the form of the pygidium and forceps dis- 

 tinguish it easily from its other congeners. 



LaMa ochropus, Stal. 



The Paris collection contains a Lahia from Mayotte 

 (AUuaud, 4-96), which I refer to this species; the s|)ecimen 

 is so small, the wings cover the somewhat telescoped 

 abdomen so completely, and the specimen is gummed to 

 a card, that it is impossible to distinguish the sex, but 

 from the shortness of the abdomen I imagine it to be 

 a female. De Bormans (Tierreich, Forf, 1900, p. 70) 

 credits the species with 11 segments to the antennae, but 

 this specimen has at least 13; the first is long and big, 

 and the second, which is exceedingly small, is black; the 

 third is a little longer, but the fourth is smaller than the 

 third, and the remainder gradually increase in length 

 towards the apex; segments 3-9 are yellowish, and the 

 four apical segments black ; the head is dull black, the 

 pronotum is rather large, square, dark - brown like the 

 elytra; the wing scales are yellow, with a narrow brownish 

 spot on the suture; the feet and forceps are yellow and 

 the abdomen black; the tibiae have a small narrow dark- 

 brown band ; the pygidium is small, transverse, with two 

 little sharp points ; the branches of the forceps are remote 

 at the base, simple, unarmed, regularly incurved, the points 

 not crossed. 



Stal records the species from Caffraria, and M. Henri 

 Gadeau de Kerville possesses a female from German East 

 Africa. It is probably widely distributed. 



