On Two Species of BraehychaeteumidEe. 79 



black, basal joint of antennae shorter than head ; connexivum 

 with small black spots. 



Long. 5^ mm. 



Hab. S. India ; Nandidrug (Dr. T. V. Campbell). 



Phorticus varicolor, sp. n. 



Head black; pronotum ochraceous, with two large basal 

 black spots which occupy nearly the whole of base and nar- 

 rowly extend up the lateral margins; scutellum and hemelytra 

 dark brownish, the latter with a large basal angular and an 

 apical ochraceous spot ; membrane black ; body beneath and 

 legs ochraceous ; antennae ochraceous, second joint blackish, 

 basal joint scarcely passing apex of head ; first and second 

 joints more or less incrassate ; membrane slightly passing abdo- 

 minal apex; abdomen beneath and legs ochraceous, sternum 

 black ; abdominal incisures very distinct and slightly darker 

 in hue. 

 • Long. 3^ mm. 



Hub. S.India; Chikkaballapura (Dr. T. V. Campbell). 



Genus LANCA. 



Lanca, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xviii. p. 369 (1906) ; Faun. 



Brit. Ind., Rhynch. v. p. 212, fig. 117 (1910). 

 Epidaus, Bergr. (nee Stal), Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxiv. p. 175 



(1915). 



Rostrum with the first joint shorter than the two remaining 



joints together Epidaus. 



Rostrum, with the first joint slightly longer than second joint. Lanca. 



Bergroth (supra) writes that Lanca " is a plain synonym 

 of Epidaus." I have figured the rostrum of each genus in 

 my Faun. Brit. Ind. 



XL — On the Discovery of Two Species of Brachychaefeumidae, 

 a Minor Group of Millipedes peculiar to the British Isles. 

 By Richard S. Bagnall, F.L.S. 



The species of the genus Brachycho3teuma are smallish 

 millipedes ranging from 7 to 8 mm. in length, belonging to 

 the Ascospermophora, white to dirty yellowish-white in 



