388 Mr. M. Burr— Notes on the Forficularia. 



scutellum parvum ; elytra arnpla ; alae longae ; sogmentum ulti- 

 mum dorsale 3 amplum quadratum ; segmentum penultimum 

 ventrale 3 amplum, latum, margiuc postico medio leviter exciso, 

 angulis late rotundatis ; forcipis bracchia <S basi remota, depressa, 

 elongata, sensim arcuata, aute apicem dento iuterno forti 

 armata. 3 . 



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Long, corporis 20 mm. 



„ forcipis 4 - 5 ,, 



Antennae testaceous. 



Head testaceous, with a black spot on the frons and a 

 narrow black border round the occiput. 



Pronotum parallel, longer than broad, subrectangular. 



Angles rounded, testaceous, with two broad black bands. 



Scutellum small, testaceous. 



Elytra black, with a reddish-yellow discoidal spot in the 

 anterior portion. 



Wings yellow, faintly shaded with fuscous. 



Feet testaceous, the femora indistinctly marked with 

 fuscous ; tarsi slender, first segment longer than third. 



Abdomen blackish, with a tine dense pubescence. 



Last dorsal segment £ ample, square, smooth, simple. 



Penultimate ventral segment £ ample, broad, angles 

 broadly rounded, posterior margin with a small median 

 emargination. 



Forceps <$ with the branches depressed ; at the base itself 

 they are dilated, so as to be almost contiguous, but this 

 portion is exceedingly short, and the branches appear to be 

 remote at the base ; they are rather slender, gently arcuate, 

 and armed with a strong tooth near the apex on the inner 

 margin. 



German East Africa: Hinterland, ?Nguru {Rohrberh). 



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This form is barely distinguishable from P. frontalis, 



Kirby, from the Cameroons ; in that species the short apical 

 portion of the forceps beyond the tooth is straight, in P. sepa- 

 rata it is arcuate ; in the latter the last dorsal segment is 

 smooth (granulose in P. frontalis) ; the elytra of P. frontalis 

 have two narrow reddish bands instead of a large oval spot. 



In the form taken by Sjosttdt at Kilimandjaro (Burr, in 

 Sjostedt's 'Exped. Kilimandjaro/ 17. Orthopteren, 1. Derraa- 

 toptera, p. 3, pi. i. fig. 1, S > 1907) (Sjostedt's specimen), 

 the elytra have the whole anterior portion pale, and the 

 last dorsal segment is not so smooth. At first I regarded 



