90 i^Ir. M. Burr — Notes on the Forficularia. 



abdomen cylindricum, fuscum ; segmcTitum ultimum magnum, 

 (juadratimi, margine postico tuberculato : forcipis brachia cS 

 basi remota, recta, apicoincurva, mucronibus attingeiitibus, rubra, 

 margine interiio creuulata, baud deiitata ; $ recta, deplauata, 

 niiuule crenulata. 



c^. $. 



Long, corporis 11 mm. 10 25 mm. 



„ forcipis 4 ,, 8-5 „ 



Head flattened, clear brick-red ; eyes small, black : an- 

 tennae 15-segmcntate ; first segment long, testaceous, dark at 

 the apex ; the other segments are black, except segments 

 10-11, ^hich are clear white ; from the second, the segments 

 are short, gradually lengthening. 



Pronotum as broad as the head, chocolate-brown, the 

 margins vhitisli or testaceous ; the anterior border is slightly 

 round-convex ; the sides are parallel ; the hinder border is 

 rounded. 



Elytra perfectly developed; chocolate-brown, dull, a little 

 broader than the pronotum at the shoulders, hinder borders 

 obliquely truncate, slightly sinuate. 



]]'{it(js ample, projecting well beyond the elytra, of the same 

 colour, with a pale spot at the apex on the inner margin (this 

 spot is sometimes very faint). 



Feet dark testaceous, varied with paler. 



Ahdomen slightly depressed, the sides parallel; rich brown 

 in the centre, darker at the sides ; abdominal tubercles 

 distinct, black. Last dorsal segment of the $ simj^le, not 

 sulcate, with a row of small tubercles on the hinder margin, 

 ■which is straight. In the ? the last dorsal segment slightly 

 narrower, with a faint sulculus near the hinder margin, the 

 tubercles smaller and fewer in number. The penultimate 

 ventral segment ^ is ample, almost entirely covering the last 

 segment, nearly rectangular, the hinder margin rounded. 



Fygidium not visible. 



horcej)s : J branches remote at the base and three-keeled 

 there, then simple, nearly straight, gradually converging to 

 meet at the apex ; in the apical half on the inner margin there 

 are three small teeth ; the forceps are bent noticeably down- 

 wards from the base. ? branches simple, straight, remote 

 at the base, more or less flattened, tiie apices meeting; the 

 inner margin near the base is very slightly dilated and crenu- 

 late ; otherwise the branches are unarmed. 



I'atria. Sarawak, Kuching, Dec. 3rd^ 1898; July 15tli, 

 1899, 2 S ', March 1899, 2 ? ; Oct. 23rd, 1899', 1 ? ; 

 July 14th, 1899, 1 nymph. 



'i his species is most closely allied to S. m'tidipenm's, Borm. 



