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Mr. AV. F. Kirby — Notes on Forficulidse. 



ppines on tibia ii. and performing with the palpi the act of 

 copulation. 



I may remark that in those species in which there is no 

 hook on coxa i. of the legs there is also an absence of the 

 specialized groove at the base of femur ii. 



Aranea ptirpurasceyis, 0. P.-Cambridge, S • 



I. Coxa of the first leg, with (a) the hook-Hke apophysis and (J) the 



conical tubercle. 

 II. Femiir (and trochanter) of the second leg, with {b) the groove into 

 which the hook-like apophysis fits. 

 HI. Portion of the margin of the carapace, showing at a the chitinous 



ridge, used in correlation with the tubercle on coxa i. 

 IV. Coxa, trochanter, and base of femur of the pedipalp, showing the 

 specialized tubercles, on the coxa at a, on the femur at b. 



YIII, Notes on Forficulidse, with Descriptions of new Species 



in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington. Bj W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



I HAVE now completed the arrangement of the collection of 

 Orthoptera in the Natural History Museum, and am preparing 

 for press my working catalogue of the whole order, which, it 

 is hoped, will be completed in the course of next year. 



