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forceps, from the base to the apex of the longest branch, not 

 including the anal segment, as is often done. 



Pygidicrnna imperatrix, sp. n. 



Statura maxima ; caput latitudine pronotum a^quiparens, vel eo 

 latius ; pronotum ovale, antice rotundatum, postice truncatum, 

 angulis rotundatis ; elytra latiora, immaculata ; alte valde promi- 

 nentes ; forceps cruribus validis, dcjiressis, basi subcontiguis, 

 margine externo prope basin dente obtuso armatis, margine 

 intemo basi crcnulatis, apice decussatis, irregulariter curvatis, 

 crura dextro magis superne, crure sinistro minus inferne curvatis. 



Colour. Mouth-])arts, frons, abdomen, and forceps black, 

 the rest testaceous. 



Head as broad as the pronotum or broader ; frons as far as 

 the eyes black; eyes black. Antennce fuscous, ?-segmentate. 



Pronotum oval, raised in the centre, the sides and hinder 

 mai'gin flat ; all angles rounded, posterior margin straight. 



Elytra broad and flat, darkish near the apex, obliquely 

 rounded at the apex. Wings protruding well beyond the 

 elytra and paler in colour. 



Abdomen black; anal segment large and broad, with a 

 median suture, very faint, the posterior border rounded, 

 emarginate roundly, and not deeply at each side. 



Legs hairy, testaceous. 



Forceps^ (T , stout ; black ; the branches are finely crenu- 

 late on inner margin at the base ; dilated and depressed, 

 straight at first ; incurved at the apical third, the right 

 branch being more strongly curved than the left and above 

 it ; each branch is armed with a stout conical tooth on the 

 outer margin near the base. ^ . 



6. 



Long, corporis 30 mm. 



„ pronoti 5 „ 



„ elytrorum 8 „ 



„ forcipis G'5 „ 



Pairia. Java occidentalis ; Mons G^^de at 4000', 1896 

 (^Fruhstorfer). 



This fine species falls into the second group of the genus, 

 characterized by the head being as broad as the pronotum, by 

 the prominent wings, and by the shape of the forceps, which 

 is almost the same in both sexes. The general form of the 

 forceps recalls the shape of that organ in Psalis and Aniso- 

 lahis. The type of this group is P. Dameli, Dohrn. 



