80 Mr. M. Burr— Notes on the Forficularia. 



Feet deep red, the knees and tibia? darker or black ; tarsi 

 darker. 



Abdomen deep dark red, somewhat dilated in the middle, 

 narrowed towards the extremity ; lateral tubercles black, very 

 distinct; the whole abdomen is finely punctulated ; last 

 segment transverse, hinder margin straight, a faint median 

 depression, a reddish blunt elevation over the insertion of the 

 forceps, and a small tubercle on the outside angles ; penulti- 

 mate ventral segment ample, rounded. 



Pygidium strongly depressed, triangular ; two small pale 

 obtuse lobes are visible below the apex of the pygidium, 

 projecting beyond the border of the produced penultimate 

 segment, visible from below. 



Forceps $ with the branches slender, long, remote at the 

 base and tricarinate there, slightly diverging at first, then 

 subsinuale until the apices meet and cross ; there is at the end 

 of the first and second third of the total length a strong trian- 

 gular depressed tooth : the forceps are red at the base, darker 

 towards the apex ; the inner margin of the basal third is 

 finely crenulated. 



P atria. North India, Sikkim, 2 $ . 



Type in my collection. 



This is a very handsome and distinct species. It appears 

 to be most closely allied to A. Hugeli, Dohrn, from Luzon, 

 but is coloured very differently. 



STRONGYLOPSALIS *, gen. nov. 



Corpus convexum : antennae segmentis 1° et 3°longis, ceteris brevi- 

 oribus, 4° et sequentibus conieis : pronotum quadratum : elytra 

 perfecte explicate ; aloe nullae : abdomen medio modice dilatatum, 

 apicem versus $ minus, § maxime attenuatum ; segmentis 2° et 

 3° dorsalibus tuberculis plieiformibus distinctis instructis : tar- 

 sorum segmentum secundum simplex, cylindricum : forcipis 

 brachia cf basi remota, gracilia, basi recta, deinde valde incurva, 

 asymmetrica ; $ contigua, recta, apice decussata. 



This genus stands nearest to Carcinophora, Scudd., from 

 which it may be distinguished by the slender forceps, quite 

 remote at the base, and not stout and subcontinuous as in 

 that genus. It has the appearance of certain species of 

 Chelidura, Latr., but is easily separated by the simple second 

 tarsal segment. From Anisolabis, Fieb., it may be distin- 

 guished by the fully developed elytra and the presence of 

 tubercles on the second and third abdominal segments. 



* aTpoyyv\os, circle ; i^aXis, forceps. 



