Mr. M. Burr — ^ytes on the ForEicularla. 273 



in tlie $ smaller, narrower; venter rich brown, smooth, 

 shining ; penuUimate ventral segment c? large, broad, short, 

 rounded posteriorly, exposing the last segment at the angles. 



Pijgidium ^ not visible ; ? very short, sharp point. 



Forceps with branches : ^ remote at the base, smooth, 

 unarmed, round, short, gradually and regularly incurved, 

 the left branch very slightly more incurved than the right ; 

 the apices decussate, the left branch above the right ; in the 

 $ the branches are very short, conical, subcoiitiguous, round, 

 unarmed, strongly incurved and decussating, the right branch 

 above the left ; the points themselves are comparatively 

 blunt in the (J and sharper in tlie ? . 



Habitat. Peru, 1 S, 1 ? ( c? from Bolivar, ? from 

 de Saussure) ; Obrajillo, Cordilleras de Perou_, 1 $ {Jelski). 

 (All three in my collection, ex coll. de Bormans.) 



Not closely allied to any described species ; smaller than 

 G. lativentris and much less strongly dilated ; it falls nearest 

 perhaps to the Asiatic G. sumatrana, Borm. 1 can find no 

 reference to it in de Bormans's notes. It bears a superficial 

 resemblance to Strong ylojjsalis inca, Burr, but has no traces 

 of organs of Higlit. 



Lahia canaca, sp. n. 



Corpus angustum, elongatnm ; colore toto rnfo-testaceo ; el) tra 

 alaeque perfecte explicata3 : pygidium breve, subtus profuudo 

 sulcatum, margine postico triangulariter excisum, lobos duos 

 triangulares acutos formanti : forcipis bracehia basi remota, 

 valida, triqtietra, leviter incurva, apicibus attingentibus, dimidio 

 apicali margine interne fortiter den ticulato. J- $ ignota. 



Long, corporis 9 mm. 



,, forcipis 2 „ 



Head slightly darker, sutures obsolete ; antennse typical, 

 with 12 segments. 



Pronotum slightly narrower than the head, widening poste- 

 riorly, anterior margin subrotundate ; lateral margins straight, 

 slightly diverging; posterior margin rounded; anterior por- 

 tion very slightly raised ; a few long bristles are visible at 

 the shoulders. 



Elytra fulvous testaceous, truncated at the apex. 



Wings long, of the same colour as the elytra. 



Feet paler testaceous. 



Abdomen long and slender ; lateral tubercles faint, darker 

 in colour than the rest of the abdomen, which is reddish ; 

 extremely finely punctulated, almost smooth ; clothed at the 



