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



Dicrano, sp, n. 



S.W. Java, Palabuaii [Fruhstorfer) , 1 ? . 



Allied to D. horsjieldi and 1). quadriyuttata, but differs 

 entirely in colour. 



The pronotum is tawny, with a black V, whereas it is red 

 in D. quadriguttata and dark with a pale border in I), hors- 

 jieldi ; the pronotum is dark in the latter, red in the former 

 species, but tawny in this. In U. horsjieldi the elytra are 

 yellowish ; in D. quadriguttata black, with four reddish spots ; 

 in this species all black. 



The pronotum is rectangular, the penultimate ventral 

 segment of the ^ has a median sulcus in ]). horsjitldi and 

 IJ. quadriguttata. It is not advisable to give a name and a 

 lormal description to this species without the male. 



Echinosonxa wahlbergi^ Dohrn. 

 Nguelo, East Africa (RoUe), 1 ^ . 



Pyragra brunnea^ sp. n. 



Statura minore ; colore rufo, pronoto, alis pedibusque fulvo-signatis ; 

 elytris fuscis. 



6. $. 



Long, corporis lu mm. 10 mm. 



„ forcipis 1"5 ,, 175 „ 



Size relatively small. 



General colour brown. 



Antennse with about thirty segments ; first not very long, 

 stout and clavate ; second short, cylindrical; third cylindiical 

 and long, quite four times as long as broad ; fourth and fifth 

 quite short, alrao.-^t globular, ab mt as broad as long ; sixth, 

 seventh, eighth, and nintii &c. gradually lengthening, very 

 gently clubbed at the apex, the apical ten segments slender, 

 almost cylindrical; in colour dull brown. 



Head broad, black, mouth-parts tawny ; tumid and bristly. 



I'ronotum transverse, convex anteriorly, straight poste- 

 riorly, the angles rounded and sides gently rounded ; blackish 

 brown, with a tawny spot on each side. 



Elytra dull brown, rough, clothed with short bristles. 



"Wings dull brown, pale yellowish along the suture. 



Feet tawny, femora and tibiae banded with fuscous. 



Abdomen depressed, parallel, deep reddish brown, rugulose 

 and bristly. 



