Mr. M. Burr — yotes on the Forficularia. 271 



Colour entirely dark reddish black except the head and 

 feet. 



Head ferruginous, the sutures indistinct ; mouth-parts 

 blackish, palpi testaceous; anteunse 21-segmentate, typical of 

 the genus, dark brown. 



Fronotum square, longer than broad, slightly broader poste- 

 riorly than anteriorl}^, anterior and posterior margins straight, 

 angles rounded, slightly tumid, the sides very slightly 

 elevated. 



Mesonotum square, simple, nearly as long as broad. 



Metanotum transverse, posterior border roundly emarginate. 



Feet uniform testaceous. 



Abdomen extremely iinely punctulated, almost smooth, the 

 lateral tubercles very taint; last abdominal dorsal segment 

 large, square, also extremely finely punctulated, with a very 

 faint median longitudinal line ; penultimate ventral seg nent 

 also very finely punctulated, obtusely triangular, rounded at 

 the posterior margin, exposing the lateral corners of the last 

 segment; the rest of tiie venter quite smooth. 



Fygidium not apparent. 



Forceps with the branches stout, triquetre, blackish red, 

 darker towards the apex, unarmed except for a few fine 

 denticulations on the inner margin ; the right branch is 

 strongly curved in above the left, which is much less strongly 

 curved. ^ . 

 ? unknown. 



Habitat. Tenasserim : Mt. Moolesit, 1000-1900 metres, in 

 April {de Bormans). 



Anisolabis Iceta, de Bormans, 1888, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) 

 vi. p. 435; id. (2) xiv. 1894, p. 379 (nee Gerstaecker) ; 

 id. (partim) de I3ormans, 1900, Tierreich, 11 Lief., 

 Orth. p. 46. 



Anisolahis lJuJ>roniij Kirby, 1903, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (7) xi. p. 68. 



Mr. Kirby has pointed out that de Bormans's specimens 

 from Tei]asserim are distinct from Gerstaecker's A. Iceta, 

 described from Kilimandscharo. Gerstaecker only described 

 the female ; but the Burmese specimens of de Bormans's 

 collection, of which one — the type of A. T)uhroni/i — is in 

 the British Museum and another in my collection, do not 

 perfectly agree with Gerstaecker's description. The two 

 differ as follows : — 



