Dr. Malcolm Burr’s Revision of the Genus Diplatys. 37 
This species, of uniform tawny colour, and head of the 
normal type, is known from Abyssinia and Eritrea. 
Type in Madrid Museum. 
19. Diplatys griffithsi, sp. n. 
Statura minore; colore fulvo et castaneo; pronotum breve ; 
subrotundatum ; segmentum ultimum dorsale ¢ haud inflatum ; 
segmentum penultimum ventrale ¢ parallelum, margine postico late 
sinuato, angulis subrotundatis ; forcipis bracchia ¢ depressa, recta, 
intus crenulata, apice recurva. 
d ? 
Leng: corporis: 0) 0.0) Smit.) 6. * 9d mm. 
a PHORGIDIG: cL hs pok Aor EMM oo. Co 25 mm, 
Size small; general colour dark chestnut, varied with tawny. 
Antennae with 15-17 segments, all cylindrical, 4th a little shorter 
than the 3rd, basal two blackish, the rest yellowish, passing to 
greyish towards the apex. 
Head broad and flat, dark chestnut, frons tumid, occiput depressed 
with distinct keel behind the eyes, which are very large and promi- 
nent; the frons is less tumid and occiput less depressed in the 2. 
Pronotum tawny, about as broad as long, anterior, margin convex 
sides converging posteriorly as the posterior margin is strongly 
narrowed; prozona distinctly tumid and metazona depressed. 
Scutellum prominent, depressed. 
Elytra ample, dark chestnut, tawny at the shoulders. 
Wings ample, dark chestnut; legs pale yellowish, sometimes 
shaded with brown. 
Abdomen parallel in, gently constricted in the middle in the ¢, 
smooth, yellowish at the base, passing to dark chestnut towards the 
apex ; lateral tubercles of 3rd and 4th segments distinct. 
Last dorsal segment in the ¢ not inflated, no wider than the 
abdomen, rectangular in the ¢, slightly narrowed in the 9. 
Penultimate ventral segment in the ¢ parallel-sided, posterior 
margin broad, sinuate, the angle slightly produced, thus forming 
small, rounded lobes; in the 9 narrow, rounded. 
Forceps with the branches in the ¢ depressed, subcontiguous, 
straight, inner margin serrulate, points hooked; in @  subcon- 
tiguous, straight, trigonal. 
Borngo: Sarawak, Saribas, August 1908 (Museum 
Sarawak) ; British North Borneo, Sambas, March Ist, 1909 
(C. Griffiths, cm.) 
This species falls with the group of D. greeni, character- 
ised by the sinuous posterior margin of the penultimate 
