﻿Dr. 
  M. 
  Burr 
  — 
  l<!otes 
  on 
  the 
  Forficularla. 
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  Pyge 
  shortridyeij 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  Colore 
  fusco-testaceo, 
  nigro-marmorato 
  ; 
  forcipis 
  bi'acchia 
  ^ 
  remota, 
  

   valde 
  arcuata, 
  apice 
  bimucronata. 
  

  

  S- 
  

  

  Long, 
  corporis 
  20 
  mm. 
  

  

  „ 
  forcipis 
  4 
  „ 
  

  

  General 
  colour 
  dark 
  testaceous, 
  marbled 
  and 
  mottled 
  with 
  

   blackish, 
  strongly 
  pubescent. 
  

  

  Antennse 
  testaceous. 
  

  

  Head 
  dark 
  testaceous, 
  indistiuctly 
  shaded 
  with 
  fuscous. 
  

  

  Proiiotum 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  tiie 
  head, 
  parallel-sided 
  ; 
  poste- 
  

   rior 
  margin 
  straight, 
  angles 
  gently 
  rounded 
  ; 
  anterior 
  niaroin 
  

   distinctly 
  convex, 
  rounded, 
  dark 
  testaceous, 
  with 
  two 
  indistinct 
  

   blackish 
  bands. 
  

  

  Scutellum 
  broad, 
  testaceous, 
  banded 
  with 
  blackisli. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  narrow 
  and 
  short, 
  dark 
  testaceous, 
  with 
  indistinct 
  

   blackish 
  bands. 
  

  

  Legs 
  dirty 
  yellowish, 
  indistinctly 
  shaded 
  with 
  dark 
  brown. 
  

  

  Abdomen 
  testaceous, 
  with 
  a 
  double 
  black 
  dorsal 
  band 
  and 
  

   one 
  down 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  gradually 
  widening 
  from 
  base 
  to 
  apex, 
  

   where 
  the 
  yellowish 
  and 
  blackish 
  fuse 
  into 
  a 
  uniform 
  deep 
  

   reddish 
  brown. 
  Venter 
  dirty 
  testaceous; 
  last 
  dorsal 
  seament 
  

   square, 
  ample, 
  smooth, 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  deep 
  red- 
  

   brown, 
  with 
  some 
  faint 
  blackish 
  pattern. 
  

  

  Penultimate 
  ventral 
  segment 
  broad 
  and 
  quadrate; 
  poste- 
  

   rior 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  canal 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  iialf. 
  

  

  Pygidium 
  hidden. 
  

  

  Forceps 
  with 
  the 
  branches 
  remote 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  depressed 
  

   and 
  dilated 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  itself 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  stronoly 
  

   arched, 
  including 
  a 
  scutiform 
  area, 
  meeting 
  before 
  the 
  apex 
  

   at 
  a 
  very 
  blunt 
  tooth, 
  finely 
  crenulate 
  here, 
  the 
  inner 
  maro-in 
  

   then 
  straight 
  and 
  contiguous 
  to 
  the 
  tips, 
  which 
  are 
  hooked. 
  

  

  W. 
  Australia 
  : 
  I 
  S 
  [G- 
  C. 
  Skortridye, 
  type 
  in 
  B. 
  M.). 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  known 
  species 
  o£ 
  Pyge 
  with 
  remote 
  

   forceps 
  and 
  mottled 
  uniform, 
  recalling 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  iSouth- 
  

   African 
  Picrania 
  Utiirata, 
  Stal. 
  The 
  forceps 
  are 
  very 
  charac- 
  

   teristic, 
  and 
  especially 
  the 
  square 
  and 
  sulcate 
  penultimate 
  

   ventral 
  segment, 
  which 
  may 
  later 
  justify 
  the 
  erection 
  of 
  a 
  

   new 
  genus. 
  

  

  Subfamily 
  Parisolabin^. 
  

  

  ParisOPSALIS, 
  gen. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  15-segmentis, 
  tertio 
  elongato, 
  4 
  et 
  5 
  tertio 
  brevioribus, 
  

  

  