Dr. M. Burr — Xoies on the Forficularia. 1 10 



Riiiallcr and (li.stinp;uisliaMi> by the p^cneric characters ; the 

 forceps are ol' the same type, but diti'cr iii detail. 

 Phiced provisionally in tliis genus. 



Forjicula riffensisy sp. n. 



Statu ra mnj ore et robusta ; pronotum suba^que latum ac longum ; 



elytra nigra ; altC breves, fulva) ; pygidiuiu breve, latum, apice 

 ■ truncatum ; forcipis braechia per dimidiura longitudinia dilatata, 



hac parte angulo recto terminata. cf . $ ignota. 



6. 



Long, corporis 14-10-5 ram. 



„ forcipis 5-10*5 „ 



Of large size and powerful build. 



Antenna} with 11 sepiments ; tliird rather short, subclavate, 

 fourth almost as long as third, fifth and rest longer than 

 third ; cylindrical, grey-brown. 



Head large, smooth, tumid ; sutures visible, but faint, deep 

 red, shading to blackish in the middle. 



Pronotum about as broad as long; anterior border and sides 

 quite straight, posterior margin well rounded, reddish chestnut. 

 Elytra broad, truncate apical ly, smooth, barely twice as 

 long as the pronotum ; dull black, with a small ill-defined 

 reddish spot at the shoulders themselves (this is sometimes 

 obsolete). 



Wings short, scarcely protruding, yellow. 

 Feet yellowish. 



Abdomen deep blackish red, very finely punctulate. 

 Last dorsal segment short and very broad, posterior margin 

 truncate, with two convex, tumid, depressed elevations in the 

 middle. 



Pygidium very short, broad, rectangular, truncate. 

 Forceps with the branches stout, depressed, red-brown, 

 finely pitted, unarmed ; inner margin dilated and depressed 

 througli about half their length, the edge straight and finely 

 crenulate, ending not in a tootii but in a right angle, beyond 

 which, attenuate, smooth, and arcuate. 

 Marocco (li ^ in c. m.). 



I received three males, two macrolabia and one cyclolabia, 

 of this fine species from Messrs. Staudinger and Bang-Uaas, 

 labelled " Marokko." 



The short yellow wings and smooth elytra make a good 

 contrast, and it is easily rectignizable. 



It difters from F. rnJicoUis in the square pronotum, longer 

 dilation of the forceps, and colour. 



It is more closely allied to /'. toinis and F. robuata, but 



