40 Dr. M. Burr — Notes on the Forficularia. 



Pronotum ^ ? small, subpentagonal, gently narrowed 

 posteriorly; prozona ample, tumid; metazona narrow, de- 

 pressed ; orange-red. 



Elytra ample, pubescent ; dull black, with a long discoidal 

 fulvous spot in anterior portion. 



Wing-scales hairy, long, brown or blackish. 



Legs fulvous. 



Abdomen red-brown, pubescent. 



Last dorsal segment ^ inflated, broader than preceding, 

 subquadrate, smooth, pubescent, with a median suture ; with 

 a pair of sliort, diverging, folded crests running over the 

 insertion of the forceps, terminating in a convexity of the 

 posterior margin, which is gently concave between these 

 points. In ? sim])le, narrower, posterior margin gently 

 produced over insertion of the forceps. 



Penultimate ventral segment ^ broad at the base and 

 strongly narrowed apically, truncate at the apex itself; in the 

 ? narrow, rounded at the apex. 



Forceps with the branches in the ^ strongly depressed 

 and dilated in the basal third, this dilated portion denticulate 

 on its margin and ending abruptly in a blunt tooih ; beyond 

 this point attenuate and strongly bowed ; the points meeting : 

 in the ? simple, contiguous, almost straight, hooked at the 

 apex. 



West Africa: Cameroon, Garna, 12-19. iv. 09, 2 c?, 5 ? 

 {Riggenbach, S. G. ; in j\1us. Berlin). 



Type in Berlin Museum. 



Tliis species somewhat resembles D. macrocephdus^ D. 

 gladiator^ and D. falcatus. It differs in the characteristic 

 form of the penultimate ventral segment of the male, also in 

 the keels on the last dorsal segment, and the form of the 

 forceps, though similar, is not quite the same. 



Anisolahis oweniiy sp. n. 



Atra, pedibus fulvis ; statura mediocri, sat gracili ; corpus dense 

 punctulatum ; abdomen segmcntis lateribus 6-9 acutis, paullo 

 rugulosis, 6-8 carinulatis ; segmeutum ultimum dorsale J 

 magnum, utrinque tumido-inflatum ; segmentum penultituuiu 

 ventrale S obtusangulum ; forcipis bracchia S subcoiitigua, 

 apice arcuata. 



c?. 



Long, corporis 17*5 mm. 



„ forcipis 3 „ 



Build not very robust; size medium; colour black. 



