Mr. M. BuiT — Xotes on the Forficularia. 257 



(3) 1839. Westwood. — ' Au Introduction to the Modern Classification 



of Insects,' i. 



(4) 1865. Dohr:x, H. — " Versuch einer Monographie der Dermapteren " 



(Stettiner entom. Zeitung, I860, p. 84). 



(5) 1875. ScuDDER, S. H. — " Critical and Historical Notes on Forficu- 



lariaj ; includiug Descriptions of new Generic Forms and 

 an Alphabetical Synonymic List of the described Species " 

 (Proc. Bost. Soc. X. H. xviii. 1875-76, p. 287). 



(6) 1882. Bbl'Nxer von Wattenwyl, C. — ' Prodromus der europji- 



ischen Orthopteren.' Leipzig. 



(7) 1884. DE BoRMANS, A. — " Six nouveaux Forficulaires de Sumatra" 



(Notes from the Leydeu Museum, vi.). 



III. — A NEW Species of Anisolabis from Ceylon. 



I have received from Mr, E. E. Green a considerable 

 amount of material from Ceylon, especially of earwigs, which 



1 hope to treat in detail later. One tine new species of 

 Anisolahis, however, I describe here. 



Anisolahis Greeni, sp. n. 



Statura mediocri ; corpus totiim minutissime granulatura, pilis noa- 

 nullis longis pallidis ornatum ; antennae lo-segmentatte ; prouotum 

 quadratum, capite paullo angustius, postice quam antice paullo 

 latius, antice medio subtiliter sulcatum ; mesouotum utrinque 

 rudimentaria elytrorum valde promiuula gerens ; metanotura 

 valde sinuatum ; femora compressa ; segmentum anale atteuuatum, 

 medio sulcatum, in <S margine postico tuberculis binis utrinque 

 instructum. 



J lamina subgenitalis triangularis, obtusa ; forcipis crura valida, 

 contigua, conica, inermia, apice valde decussata, crure dextro 

 supra et fortius incurvo. 



2 lamina subgenitalis obtusa, triangularis ; forcipis crura recta, 

 valida, basi distantia, medio dente parvo margine interno armata, 

 apicem versus attenuata, incurva, attingentia vel paullo decus- 

 sata. cf 5 . 



Head convex, shining black ; palpi and mouth-parts brick- 

 red ; antennse with first segment brick-red, the rest black, 

 except the four apical segments, which are pale. 



Pro-, meso-, and metanota shining black. 



Abdomen shining black, reddish beneath. 



Feet brick-red, the tarsi testaceous ; the femora banded 

 with fuscous at the base and at the apex. 



Forceps black. 



