72 Dr. Al. Burr — Notes on the Forficularla. 



X. — Notes on the Forficularla. — XX. A new Genus and 

 Five new Species from Australia. Bj MALCOLM BuRU, 

 D.Sc, F.E.S., &c." 



[Plate IV.] 



The Dermaptera of Australia have been neglected by 

 collectors, and it is only quite recently that 1 have seen any 

 t'resh material. I have now, however, enlisted the co-opera- 

 lion of i\[r. 11. Hanilyn Harris^ Director of the Queensland 

 Museum, Mr. F. P. Spry, of Melbourne, and Mr. F. P. Dodd, 

 of Kuranda, Queensland, from whom I have received a 

 number of interesting species. The hitherto unknown ones 

 are now described for the first time. In two instances the 

 genital armature is figured and briefly described in a 

 provisional manner. 



>S ubf a m i ly Fygidicraninjs. 



Dicrana hackeri, sp. n. 



Parva, gracilis, pallida, fusco-ornata ; forcipis bracchia d" contigua ; 

 Begmcutum penultimum veutrale quadratiim, margine postico 

 utrinque emarginato, lobulo medio acute. 



d. 



Long, corporis 10 mm, 



„ forcipis 2 „ 



Small and slender; colour |»ale tawny or buff, with blackish 

 markings; head flat, butT' ; pronotum slightly longer than 

 bioad, and plightly narrower posteriorly than anteriorly, 

 anterior margin rounded, posterior truncate, si(h'S sub- 

 ])ar;dlel ; elytra long, blackish, with a median long buff band ; 

 wings perfect, banded with buff and blackish ; scutellum 

 «mple, buff, nearly equilateral ; legs buff and hairy ; abdomen 

 bnff at the base, passing to deep red apicaliy, scarcely 

 dilated ; last dorsal segment marly square, deep red, smooth, 

 unarmed; ])enultimate ventr.il segment J quadrate, poste- 

 rior margin emarginate on each side, with a feeble lobe in the 

 middle. Foiceps with branches contiguous, depressed, deep 

 red, rather broad, straight, the tips gently curved. 



Queensland: Brisbane, 1 S > 2(i. vi. 11 {Hacker, in Mus. 

 Brisbane) ; Kuranda [l)odd, inc. m.). 



The type will be deposited in the British Museum. 



This is a delicate little species, well characterized by the 

 form of the penultimate ventral segment of tlic male. 



