Mr. M. Bm-r— Notes on the Forficularia. 253 



Abdomen cylindrical, black ; anal segment large, red, 

 quadrate. 



Pygidium small, quadrate, the sides slightly dilated, the 

 posterior margin slightly sinuate, the angles pointed. 



Forceps with the branches straight, red at the base itself, 

 then black, incurved towards the apex, and strongly decus- 

 sating, armed on the interior margin at the middle with a 

 strong tooth. 



Head, pronotum, elytra, wings, and abdomen pubescent, 

 with sliort hairs; forceps pubescent, with long fine hairs. (J. 



Putria. Ecuador, camp above Chimbo, 3000', VIII. '97. 



This species is closely allied to S. nigrina, Stal, but it may 

 be distinguished at once by the much smaller pygidium and 

 shorter forceps, which are armed with only one tooth on each 

 branch inside, and not with two, as in S. nigrina. 



Psalis Rosenbergi, sp. n, 



Statura minora ; corpus pilosum ; caput convexum ; antennte 15- 

 segmentatse; pronotum parvum, capite anguatius, antice trun- 

 catum, postice rotundatum ; elytra longa, apice truiicata ; alae 

 longas, valde prominentes ; abdomen validum. 

 Segmentum anale (S magnum, medio valde quadrato-emarginatum, 

 lateribus tumidis, margins postico subsinuato, pone angulos 

 emarginato ; lamina subgenitalis c? magna, apice rotundato- 

 triangularis, media apice sulcata ; pygidio nullo ; forcijMs crura 

 (5 valida, inermia, basi haud contigua, iiicurva, apice attenuata 

 et attingentia. Segmentum anale 5 naagnum, margine postico 

 rectum, sulcatum : lamina subgenitaUs 2 obtuse triangularis, 

 hand sulcata ; forcipis crura $ valida, recta, inermia, tan turn 

 apice contigua. c? $ . 



6. 2. 



Long, corporis 15 mm. 135-15 mm. 



„ forcipis 2-25 „ 1-75-2 „ 



Head fuscous, varied with reddish ; antennaj black, the 

 segments 11-12 white (sometimes it is other segments that 

 are white, the colour of these organs, as in all earwigs, being 

 very variable). 



Pronotum black, sometimes varied with reddish. 



Elytra black, with a light red spot anterior to the centre. 



Wings red, with a dark spot on the inner margin at the 

 apex. 



Feet testaceous, the femora broadly banded with black. 



Abdomen black, sometimes varied with reddish. 



Forceps entirely black. 



Patria. Ecuador, Paramba, 3500', IV. '97 (dry season), 

 Ann. <k Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. iv. 18 



