Mr. M. BiiiT — Xofes on the Forficularia. 403 



wliidi are very different in colour and of much stouter build. 

 It may be also known by the colour of the elytra and wings, 

 and the long, slender, almost unarmed forceps. 



Anechura sokoirana, sp. n. 



Corpus pilis longis pallidis obsitum, fusco-castaneum ; antennae 

 testaceje, segmentis gracihoribus ; caput ferrugineum, sutiiris 

 transversalibus sat distinctis : pronotum quadratum, nigrum, 

 marginibus rectis, postico rotundato, totum subtumidum, mar- 

 ginibus reflexis, paUido-testaceis ; elytra brevia, nigra, medio 

 macula magna pallida ornata, margine interno quam externo 

 multo brevius, margine poatico sinuato, angulo interno apicali 

 rotundato: alae aborti'va?: pedes longi, sat gracik-s, testacei, 

 femoribus prope apicem infuscatis : abdomen magnum, rufo- 

 nigrum, punctulatum, plieis lateralibus sat distinctis ; seg- 

 mentum ultimum J subijuadratum, latius quara longius, 

 margiue postico superne tuberculis duobus, spiniformibus, 

 supra forceps spectantibus, armatum ; $ angustum, decUve, 

 incrme : pygidium J quadratum, globosum, lateribus convexis, 

 margine postico truncate, angulis spinulis armatis ; § baud 

 perspicuum. Forcipis braccbia cS sat vaUda, basi ipso paullo 

 dilatata sed baud deplanata, margine interno basi ipso deute 

 forti armata, debinc estus ac intus incurva, aream ellipticam 

 elongatam includentia, inermia : 5 recta, inermia, contigua ; 

 forceps rufescens, apice infuscatus. 



Long, corporis 16 mm. 10 mm. 



„ forcipis 6 „ 3 „ 



Patria. Sokotra ( J ? in B.M.). 



Anechura Fedtchenkoi, Burr, iu Forbes's Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 414 

 (1903). 



The two specimens brought from Sokotra by ihe Forbes- 

 Grant Expedition were formerly identified by me as 

 A. Fedtchenkoi [1. c), but, now that I iiave been able to 

 examine a good series of that species, a further examination 

 shows that they are entirely distinct. The forceps are more 

 strongly bowed, forming an elongated ellipse; the pygidium 

 is different ; the last segment of the abdomen has two tubercles 

 in the middle, pointing directly backwards and parallel, 

 w hereas in A. Fedtchenkoi the tubercles are stronger, situated 

 at the corners, and point outwards. 



Forjicula canariensis, sp. n. 



F. Lesnei proxime affinis : differt statura majore, robustiori, elytris 

 brevioribus, apice obbtjue truncatis, augulis rotundatis, margine 

 interno quam externo multo brevioribus, corpore minus pubescent!. 

 Ceteris cum F. Lesnei omnino congruet. $ ignota. 



