Dr. M. Burr — yotes on the Forficularla. lir> 



sinuate ; the al)iloint'ii is rorinetl as in tlie adult ami in the rj" 

 .sliows the aeiite ^iiles of the tilth to ninth sc^nuMit.s ; the last 

 dorsal segments are formed as in the adult. 



West Africa: Victoria {(Jerstaecker) -^ Gami)ia (Kirbi/) ; 

 Cotigo, Staidey Pool (c. m.) ; Liheria (c. m.) ; Upper Coti<;o, 

 Mawauli in March {Schubotz) ; " Lacdteoccidentule d'Afrique" 

 (Mus. Hope, Oxford). 



Gerstaeckcr's tvpe of Brachi/lahis cincticoUis has been 

 kindly lent me by Dr. Mueller of Greifswald, and is discussed 

 by me in a previous paper (1909') pp. 255 & 257. The 

 ppecimen is a female, and as the elytra are short but free it 

 Fcemed to be adult. Further material from the Upper Conf^o 

 agrees |)erfectlv with the type and shows the sexual characters 

 well ; but the inHated appearance of the metanotum suggests 

 immaturity, and a comparison with undoubted specimens of 

 Psalis picina, Kirby, shows no true specific distinctions. 

 True, the latter is somewhat smaller, but the material which 

 I have examined is old and dry and the abdomen shrunken, 

 while the additional specimens are fresh; from Liberia I 

 have received both forms together, atid now there remains 

 no doubt whatever in my mind that Psalis picina of 

 Kirby is the adult of Drachylalis cincticoUis of Gerstaecker ; 

 the latter name has the prior right, and consequently must 

 stand. 



Very probably Forjicula rufescens of Palisot de Beauvais 

 is the same thing. 



The colour varies considerably ; the two adult males in the 

 Hope Collection are of varying shades of dirty yellow ; a 

 fresh female from Liberia is almost black. 



Eparchus o'uentatus^ sp. n. 



Opisthocosmiaforcipata, var., Burr (nee llaan), (1897*) p. 316 ; (1809'') 

 p. 200 ; Borm. (1900^) p. 95. 



Statura minore, gracili ; colore nigro, capite pronotoque rubris, 

 elytris absque rufo-fuscis, pedibus testaceis : forcipis bracchia S 

 basi subcontigua, gracilia, subrecta, purallela, in tertia parte 

 longitudinis supra dtnto verticali f'orti arraata ; dchirio ovato- 

 arcuata, margiuc interne dente forti acute armata ; $ typica. 



6. $. 



Long, corporis 7*5-9 rain, 8-9 lura. 



„ forcipis 2*5 ,, 4o „ 



General colour dull black or reddish black, feet testaceous. 

 Head brick-red, smooth, sutures not visible, two very small 

 depressions between the eyes. 



