Mr. M. Bm-v— Notes on the Forficularla. 495 



dorsale medio impressum et subtuberculatum : pygidium breve, 

 conicum, apice fissiirn : forcipis bracchia sat valida; margine 

 interno prope basin dilatata et deplanata, hac parte brevi vix 

 contigua, dente obtuso obsolete termiuata ; dehinc sensira 

 incurva, in tertia parte basali denticulo minuto : forceps ipse baud 

 deplanatus, margine solo interno laminate. J • 



d. 



Long, corporis 12 mm. 



„ forcipis 4-5 „ 



Patria. Guatemala: Mt. Oltrain (in B.M.). 



Synonymic Notes. 



The following descriptions and names ap))ear to me to be 

 applied to the same species ; I have not been able to verify 

 all the types, but the quoted localities and the desciiptions 

 leave very little doubt that the names are synonymous. 



Anechura eoa^ Semenov^ Rev. russe d'Ent. ii. p. 100, fig. 2 

 {1902) = Fo7-Jicula J aponica, Borm. An. Soc. Esp. H. N. ix. 

 p. 512 (1880). As the name japonica in Forjtculi is pre- 

 occupied by Haan, Rehn (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxvii. p. 540, 

 1904) suggests the new specific name athymia. As it falls 

 into my genus Odontopsalis (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1904, 

 p. 316), which will coincide vrith true Anechura^ Scudder, the 

 correct name for this insect is Anechura athymia (Rehn). 



Nesogaster Fruhstorferi, Verlioeff, Zool. Anzeig. no. 6G.5, 

 p. 191 {1902) = La/na dolicha, Burr, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (6) XX, p. 311 (1897) ; so that the correct name for this 

 species is ISesoyaster doliclius (Burr). 



Sparatta semifuha, Borm. Notes from the Leyden Mus. 

 vi. p. 183 (1884), and Sphingolahis furcifera, Borm. /. c. 

 p. 194, appear to be respectively the ? and the S of the same 

 insect. 1 have in my collection an insect whicii agrees 

 perfectly with the description of the first, and with an 

 unpublished drawing of it by de Bormans himself, and another 

 which agrees equally well with the latter and with an 

 unpublished coloured drawing of the same : but these two 

 insects are very obviously the sexes of one species ; they 

 resemble in eveiy particular of locality and coloration, were 

 taken together, and differ only in the form of the pygidium 

 and forceps ; the " semifulva " specimens have all seven 

 visible abdominal segments (that is, are females), and the 



