274 Mr. M. Burr — Xotes on (he Forficularia. 



sides with a very fine, very short, yellow pubescence and a 

 few long stiff bristles. Last abdominal segment large, 

 smooth, rectangular, slightly narrower posteriorly, with a 

 vtry small tubercle in the middle of the hinder margin ; 

 penultimate ventral segment very large, rounded, slightly 

 roundly emarginate in the posterior margin. 



Pygidium short, stout, deeply furrowed beneath, narrower 

 at the base than the apex, which is triangularly emarginate 

 and produced into a short triangular lobe on each side of this 

 excision. The pygidium is better seen from beneath than 

 from above. 



Forceps with the branches stout, triquetre, remote at the 

 base, reddish, darker apically, nearly straight, gradually 

 incurved, to meet at the apex ; unarmed in the basal half, 

 with a small tooth on the inner margin in the middle ; beyond 

 this tooth fairly strongly denticulated on the inner margin 

 down to the apex. Covered with short fine yellow pubescence. 



Habitat. New Caledonia, Noumea. ( iYpe, 1 (5" , in Brit. 

 Mus. ; 1 J in my collection.) 



This species was named, but not described, by de Borraans ; 

 it falls into the group of elongated species with prominent 

 pygidium : it falls nearest to L. pyyidiata and L. ridens^ 

 Borm. ; its uniform reddish-testaceous colour distinguishes it 

 at a glance from either of these, and the form of the pygidiuia 

 is very characteristic, as also of the forceps. 



Chelisoches vittatus, sp. n. 



Statura mediocri ; caput rufum ; antennag 17-segmentat8B, nigras, 

 ante apicem albo-annulatie : pronotum uigrum, testaceo-variega- 

 tum : elytra alajque testacea, nigro-vitta'a : pedes testacei : 

 abdomen nigrum ; segmentum ultimum dorsale transversum, 

 rectaugulare, medio impresso : pygidium breve, vix perspicuu:ii, 

 medio emargiuato : forcipis bracchia basi remota, valida, basi 

 dilatata, hac parte dilatata m deiitem validum, longum, acutuin, 

 postice spcctantem produeia, dehinc gracilia, inermia, levitur 

 incurva. d . $ iguota. 



Long, corporis 12-75 mm. 



„ foieipis 7"25 „ 



Head clear red, sutures obsolete ; eyes small, black. 



Antennce with 17 segments, all black except 11 and 12, 

 which are clear white ; the first segment is large and stout, 

 2 minute, 3 considerably longer; 4, 5, and 6 small, round, 

 almost knotted, the remainder gradually lengthening. 



Fronotum as broad as the head, black, laterally and poste- 

 riorly bordered with fulvous; the anterior margin straight. 



