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axillary angle, truncate posteriorly, meeting at apex of 

 suture, hairy, dirty yellow, borclcrcd with blaek; legs tawny, 

 banded with blackish ; abdomen black, the first few segments 

 with tawny mottling ; last tergite smooth, black, ample in (J , 

 posterior margin irregularly rounded, rectangular at tlie 

 sides ; in ? punctulate ; ninth steruite ample, broadly 

 rounded posteriorly, with a round emargination in the 

 middle oE the posterior margin ; in the ? entire, narrowly 

 rounded ; forceps with the branches stout, trigonal, con- 

 tiguous and nearly straight in both sexes, erenulate on inner 

 margin ; in c? slightly more curved than in the ? . 



Uganda: Entebbe Forest, June-August 1912, 3 cJ, 

 1 nymph {]Vi(/(jins) ; Entebbe, ]May-June, 1912,2? ? 

 (Mrs. Goivdey). 



This is the first-known African Pygidicranid with strongly 

 abbreviated and reduced elytra; in general appearance it 

 recalls the Indian Kalocrania valida. 



I have pleasure in dedicating it to Mr, C. A. Wiggins, of 

 Entebbe, Uganda, who sent me this new species among some 

 other interesting material ; for the female, as well as for 

 many other Dermaptera, 1 am indebted to Mrs. C. C. Gowdey, 

 of Entebbe. 



The parameres resemble those of the other African 

 Pygidicranince, but are slenderer and very acute ; the bifid 

 transverse lobe is very narrow, and parallel-sided, and 

 straight. 



\Vhen the male genitalia have been more carefully studied 

 in a large number of species, the arrangement of the genera 

 in this group will probably have to be recast, and possibly 

 they will eventually fall into geographical groups. 



Cranopygia dravidia, sp. n. 



Fusco-nigra, fulvo-varicgata ; forcipis bracchia S basi ipsocontigua, 

 turn fortiter arcuata, apice bimucrouata, attingeutia. 



^• 

 Long, corporis 19 mm. 



,, forcipis 3-5 ,, 



Small ; greyish black, varied with tawny; antennae 

 greyish, head smooth, black, marbled with tawny ; pro- 

 iiotum as broad as th.e head, longer than broad, parallel- 

 sided, posterior border straight, all angles rounded, black, 

 with a median tawny band and narrow tawny e(]ging; 

 scutellum tawny; elytra black, with a broad, oblique, pale 

 tawny band ; legs tawny, marbled with black; abdomen 

 greyish and black, densely clothed with a golden pubescence ; 



