40 Dr. M. Burr — Notes on the Forficularia. 



Proiiotum ^ ? small, subpentagonal, gently narrowed 

 posteriorly ; prozona ami)le, tumid; metazona narrow, de- 

 pressed ; orange-red. 



Elytra ample, jmbescent ; dull black, with a long discoiJal 

 fulvous spot ill anterior portion. 



Wing-scales liairy, long, brown or blackish. 



Legs fulvous. 



Abdomen red-brown, pubescent. 



Last dorsal segment S inflated, broader than preceding, 

 subquadrate, smooth, pubescent, with a median suture ; with 

 a pair of short, diverging, folded crests running over the 

 insertion of the force))S, terminating in a convexity of the 

 posterior margin, which is gently concave between these 

 points. In ? simple, narrower, posterior margin gently 

 produced over insertion of the forceps. 



Penultimate ventral segment ^ broad at the base and 

 strongly narrowed apiially, truncate at the apex itself; in the 

 $ narrow, rounded at the apex. 



Forceps with the branches in the ^ strongly depressed 

 and dilated in the basal third, this dilated portion denticulate 

 on its margin and ending abruptly in a blunt tooth; beyond 

 this point attenuate and strongly bowed ; the points meeting : 

 in the ? simple, contiguous, almost straight, hooked at the 

 apex. 



West Africa: Cameroon, Garna, 12-19. iv. 00, 2 ,^,5 ? 

 {Eigrjeiibach, S. G. ; in i\lu3. Berlin). 



Type in Berlin ]\luseum. 



Tliis species somewhat resembles D. macroceph ilus, D. 

 gladiator, and D. falcatus. It differs in the characteristic 

 form of the penultimate ventral segment of the male, also in 

 the keels on the last dorsal segment, and the form of the 

 forceps, though similar, is not quite the same. 



Anisolabis ovoenii, sp. n. 



Atra, pcdibus fulvis ; etatura mediocri, sat gracili ; corpus dense 

 punctulatum ; abdomen segmcntis lateribus 6-9 acutis, paullo 

 rugulosis, 6-8 earinulatis ; segnieutum ultiunim dorsale c? 

 magnum, utriniiue tumido-iutlatum ; segmentum peiiultimum 

 ventrale S obtusanguhim ; forcipis bracchia 6 subcontigua, 

 apice arcuata. 



Long, corporis 17-5 mm. 



„ forcipis 8 ,, 



Build not very robust ; sizt." moJium ; colour black. 



