Dr. M. Bun- — Xotes on the Forficuhiria. '^0 



Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forbaudl. Arg. 33, no. 5, pp. 23-42, pis. viii.- 

 xi. 

 WAHLonEX, E. (1000.) * Apterypoten aus Agypten und dem Sudan 

 iiebst Bemerkungen zur Verbreituug und Systeniatik der Collem- 

 boleu.' Kesults of tlie Swedisb Zoological Expedition to Egypt 

 and tbe Wbit« Nile, 1901, under tbo direction of L. A. Jiigers- 

 kiold, no. lo, pp. 1-72, tigs. l-o2. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IIL 



All the illustrations are of Oncopodura ci-assicornis, sp. n. 



Fig. 1. Outline, from tbe side. 



l-'ii/. 2. lligbt antenna from above, showing also postantennal organ from 



tbe side. 

 Fig. 3. Tliree terminal joints of the antenna, showing sense-organs. 

 Fig. 4. Left postantennal organ and base of antenna. 

 Fig. ■'). Mesothorax from tbe side, showing fine sensory hair. 

 Fig. 6. Manubrium and dentes from the side. (Nearly all the feathery 



hairs liad been denuded from tbe dentes.) 

 Fig. 7. Mucro, with lamelke, from the side. 

 Fig. 8. Tibio-tarsus and foot of second leg, showing clavate h dr. 

 Fig. 9. Outline of scale. 



IV. — Xoles on the Forficularia. — XVIII. Move nnv Species. 

 By Malcolm Burr, D.Sc, F.E.S., F.Z.8., F.G.S. 



Diplatx/s riggenbachi^ sp. u. 



(J. Vertex tumidus; occiput depressum, carinulis acutis ; pro- 

 notum (^ 2 breve, pentagonale, postice subangustatum ; elytra 

 aloeque perfecta ; segmentum ultimum dorsale J iutlatum; 

 segraentum peuultimum veiitrale ^ basi latum, apicem vei'sus 

 ansustatura, apice truucatum ; forcipis bracchia cJ basi dilatata 

 ac deplanata, turn attenuata, fortiter arcuata. 



6. 2. 



Long, corporis 13 mm. 10-5-12*5 mm. 



„ forcipis 2 „ 2 „ 



Size relatively large ; general colour rust-red. 



Anteniife fulvous, with about 22 segments, third not very 

 long, fourtli and fifth quite short, rest slowly lengthening ; 

 cylindrical. 



Head broad and depressed ; sutures distinct ; in the cJ 

 vertex tumid, occiput depressed, postocular keels sharp ; in 

 the ? vertex and occiput similar, postocular keels shorter; 

 eyes prominent. 



