oe 
42 Dr. Malcolm Burr’s Revision of the Genus Diplatys. 
sont from D. raffrayi and D. aethiops, but in those African 
species the forceps are decidedly flattened, whereas in this 
species, though somewhat depressed, they are in reality 
trigonal. 
Type in Leyden Museum. 
27. Diplatys annandalei, sp. n. 
Statura mediocri; colore fusco; pronotum pentagonale; seg- 
mentum ultimum dorsale abdomine latius et haud transversum ; 
segmentum penultimum ventrale haud angustatum, margine postico 
truncato; forcipis bracchia recta cylindrico-conica, haud depressa, 
contigua: ¢; @ ignota, 
J 
Juong: corporis. . |v). f4/)<: 105 mm. 
SUMLONCIpIsicr cups Tsith. io f a 1 - 
Size medium, colour fuscous. 
Antennae... 
Head black ; frons tumid ; occiput depressed. 
Pronotum pentagonal, slightly longer than wide, narrowed 
posteriorly ; sides straight, posterior margin straight, angles rounded. 
Elytra ample, blackish. 
Wings prominent, blackish. 
Feet yellowish, banded with blackish. 
Abdomen purplish red. 
Last dorsal segment black, ample, smooth, wider than the abdomen 
but not wider than long. 
Penultimate ventral segment rectangular, posterior margin 
truncate. 
Forceps with the branches rounded above, the under surface flat, 
short, straight, unarmed, contiguous and yellowish in colour. 
Stam: Biserat, Bukit Tapang (leg. Annandale, v, ’99. 
Type 1 3g, in c.m.). 
In the form of the pronotum, this species approaches 
D. jacobsoni, but ditfers in the form of the penultimate 
ventral segment: from D. rufescens, it differs in the shorter 
pentagonal pronotum. 
Type in my collection. 
28. Diplatys liberatus, Burr 
Nannopygia gerstaeckeri, Borm. (nec Burr, nec Kirby), 
(1894) p. 372 partim, (1900?) p. 11 partim. 
Diplatys liberatus, Burr, (19101), p. 52, figs. 90, 90a. 
