-i2 Dr. M. Buvr — Notes on the Foificulaiia. 



Aiitennte with 15 segments, uniform yellowisli brown, 

 ratlier long and rather thick. 



Head deep red, smooth, sutures not very distinct. 



Pronotum a little longer than broad, very slightly convex 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, sides straight; almost parallel, 

 very slightly diverging posteriorly; smooth, dark reddish 

 brown, median suture distinct. 



Meso- and metanota and first three abdominal segments 

 smooth, black. 



Sternal plates yellowish, typical. 



Legs yellow ; tarsi long, first and third segments about 

 equal. 



Abdomen feebly dilated, black, very finely punctulate ; 

 sides of fifth to ninth segments in the c^ acute (fifth rather 

 feebly so), rugulose, and feebly carinulate. 



Last dorsal segment (^ ample, jet-black, nearly smooth, 

 with distinct median suture; transverse, rectangular, nar- 

 rower than the preceding ; on each side above there is a low, 

 rather tumid, compressed crest, running into the elevation 

 over the insertion of the forceps; in the $ narrower, sloping, 

 with no crest. 



Penultimate ventral segment (J broadly rounded, punctu- 

 late. 



Forceps with the branches in the (^ remote, stout, trigonal 

 at base, attenuate, cylindrical, and arcuate in apical half; 

 inner margin finely denticulate : in $ contiguous, straight. 



West Africa: Cameroon (1 ? ,c. m.) ; Gendero, 2nd March, 

 1909 {Riggei^hach, S. Gr., 1 ^ , type, in Mus. Berlin). 



This species is distinguished by the nearly smooth body, 

 with fine and v/eak punctulation, and by the crests of the 

 last dorsal seo;ment of the male. 



Anisolahis vicina, sp. n. 



A. Jcristenseni vicina ; differt statura minore, debiliori, pronoto 

 rufo, abdomine rafescenti, forcipe J minus abrupte arcuato, 

 margiiie interne toto crenulato, abdomine dorso punctulato, 

 forcipis bracchiis 5 contiguis, rectis. 



d. ?. 



Long, corporis .... 18-0-19-5 mm. 15 -17 mm. 



,, forcipis 3- 3'5 ,, 2-5-3 „ 



Size medium ; general colour deep reddish black ; heal 

 and thora.K yellowish. 



Antennpe yellowish brown to blackish, basal segments often 

 paler ; third segment rather short. 



