88 Mr. M. Burr — Notes on the Forficularia. 



the inner margin ; towards the ajicx tlie brandies converge 

 strongly, and are very strongly dilated immediately before 

 the apex, where they are pointed and hooked ; in the ? the 

 branches are simple, straight, smooth, unarmed, and incurved 

 slightly at the apex. 



The feet, abdomen, and forceps are clothed with a pale 

 short yellowish j)ubescence. 



Patria. Peru, 1 cT , 3 ? (ex coll. Staudinger). 



Type in my collection. 



This species stands nearest to A. Chamjnoniy Borm., from 

 •which it may be distinguished by the square ultimate dorsal 

 segment, which has not the angles sharply produced as in 

 ^4. C/ianipiont, by the abdominal tubercles being distinct only 

 on segments 2-3, and not on segments 2-7, and by the forceps, 

 which have the branches less strongly diverging, with fewer 

 teeth. 



Dormans Park, East Grinstead, 

 April, 1900. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. Figs. .% 5, 7. 



Fiff. 3. Apterygida Mackinderi, sp. n. Somali. S • 

 Fig. 3 a. Ditto. Seornientum ultiiuum ventrale, from below. 

 Fig. 5. Anechura ahrimaues, &T^. n. Sikkim. ^. 



Fig. 7. For/tcula urientalis, sp. u. Constantinople. cS • La?t segment 

 and forceps. 



XT. — Xoten on the Forficularia. — VI. On a Colleclion of 

 Forficularia from Sarawak. By MALCOLM BuRR, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S. 



[Plate IV. figs. 1, 2, 4, 6.] 



Mr. R. Shelford, of Sarawak, has very kindly handed to 

 me for determination a small collection of earwigs from that 

 region. The collection includes twenty-five species, of which 

 nine are new, and there are some very curious forms. 



The localities from which they come are thus explained by 

 Mr. Shelford :— 



Kuching. — The capital of Sarawak. 

 Matang. — A mountain 7 miles from Kuching, 2800 feet. 

 Penrissen. — A mountain 50 miles from tiie sea, at the 

 liead of the left branch of the Sarawak River, reaching 



