Dr. M. Burr — Notes on the Forficularia. 41 



Antenna3 with 17 segments, 1-2 orange, the rest grey- 

 brown ; third rather short, fourth and tilth subglobular, the 

 rest lengthening, subcylinch-ical. 



Head tumid, black, feebly punctulate ; eyes prominent. 



Pronotum black, anterior margin and sides straight, poste- 

 rior margin very gently convex ; median suture distinct, 

 feebly punctulate. 



Meso- and metanotum black, more densely punctulate. 



Sternum typical, orange. 



Legs orange ; tarsi long, first and third segments about 

 equal. 



Abdomen black, densely and rather coarsely punctulate ; 

 sides of sixth to ninth segments acute and rugulose, sixth to 

 eighth carinulate. 



Last dorsal segment ^ ample, smooth, with distinct median 

 suture, truncate posteriorly, inflated at each side above into 

 an incipient blunt tubercle or crest. 



Penultimate ventral segment broad, obtusangular, the apex 

 sharply pointed. 



Pygidium narrow. 



Forceps with the branches subcontiguous, stout, trigonal at 

 the base, straight in basal half, apically attenuate and in- 

 curved, feebly asymmetrical. 



West Africa: Liberia {8. G. Owen, 1 c? , in c. m.). 



This species is only known from tlie unique type in my 

 collection, taken by Mr. S. G. Owen, A.R.S.Al., in Liberia. 

 It is well characterized by the shane of the penultimate 

 ventral segment. It resembles A. infelix, Burr, but differs 

 among other points in the less strongly pitted abdomen and 

 feebly punctulate thorax and liead. 



It also resembles A, tiirgida. 



It differs from A. rufescens, Kirby, in the feebly punctulate 

 and black head and thorax and angular penultimate ventral 

 segment. 



Anisolahis turgida, sp. n. 



Rufo-castanea et nigra ; caput et thorax laevia ; abdomen minute 

 punctulatum ; d" segmentis 5-9 lateribus acutis, rugulosis, obso- 

 lete carinulatis ; segmcntum ultimum dorsale (S magnum, sub- 

 liBve, superne utrinque crista tumida instructum ; forcipis bracchia 

 c? remota, arcuata. 



J. $. 



Long, corporis 15 mm. 14 mm. 



„ forcipis 2-5 ,, 2 „ 



Build stout ; size medium ; general colour dark reddish 

 chestnut to black. 



