42 Dr. M. Bun- — Xote.s on the Foificularia. 



Aiitcnnaj witli 15 segments, uniform yellowish brown, 

 rutlier long and ratlier thick. 



Head deep red, smooth, sutures not very distinct, 



Pronotuin a little longer than broad, very slightly convex 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, sides straight; almost parallel, 

 very slightly diverging posteriorly; smooth, dark reddish 

 brown, median suture distinct. 



Meso- and metanota and first three abdominal segments 

 smooth, black. 



Sternal plates yellowish, typical. 



Legs yellow; tarsi long, first and third segments about 

 equal. 



Abdomen feebly dilated, black, very finely punctulate ; 

 sides of fifth to ninth segments in the ^ acute (fifth rather 

 I'eebly so), rugulose, and feebly carinulate. 



Last dorsal segment ^ ample, jet-black, nearly smooth, 

 with distinct median suture; transverse, rectangular, nar- 

 rower than the preceding ; on each side above there is a low, 

 rather tumid, compressed crest, running into the elevation 

 over the insertion of the forceps; in the ? narrower, sloping, 

 with no crest. 



Penultimate ventral segment S broadly rounded, punctu- 

 late. 



Forceps with the branches in the ^ remote, stout, trigonal 

 at base, attenuate, cylindrical, and arcuate in apical half; 

 inner margin finely denticulate : in $ contiguous, straight. 



West Africa : Cameroon (1 ? , c. m.) ; Gendero, 2nd March, 

 1909 (Riggenbach, S. G., 1 (J, type, in Mus. Berlin). 



This species is distinguished by the nearly smooth body, 

 with fine and v/eak punctulation, and by the crests of the. 

 last dorsal segment of the male. 



Aiiisolabi's vicina, sp. n. 



A. Jcristcnseni vicina; difFiTt statura minore, debiliori. pronoto 

 rutb, abdoiniiio nifesceiiti, forcipe c? minus abrupte arcuato, 

 mar;j;ino intcrno toto oreiuilato, abdomine dorso punctulato, 

 i'orcipis braccliiis $ contiguis, rcctis. 



6. $. 



Long, corporis .... lS-5-10-5 mm. 15 -17 mm. 



„ forcii)is 3- 3*5 „ 2-5-3 „ 



Size nu'diuni : general colour deep reddish black ; Iioa I 

 and tlu)ra\ ytdlouisli. 



AnteiuKeycllouisli brown (o blackish, basal seguients often 

 paler; third segment i-ather short. 



