Mr. M. Burr — Notes on the Forficularia. 257 



(3) 1839. Westwood.— ' An Introduction to the Modern Classification 



of Insects,' i. 



(4) 18G5. DoHKN, H.^" Versuch einer Monographie der Dermapteren " 



(Stettiner entom. Zeituug, I860, p. 84). 



(5) 1875. ScuDDER, S. H. — " Critical and Historical Notes on Forficu- 



larise ; including Descriptions of new Generic Forms and 

 an Alphabetical Synonymic List of the described Species " 

 (Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. 1875-76, p. 287). 



(6) 1882. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 0. — ' Prodromus der europa- 



ischen Orthopteren.' Leipzig. 



(7) 1884. DE BoRMANS, A. — " Six nouveaux Forficulaires de Sumatra" 



(Notes from the Leyden Museum, vi.). 



III. — A NEW Species of Anisolabis from Ceylont. 



I have received from Mr. E. E. Green a considerable 

 amount of material from Ceylon, especially of earwigs, which 

 I hope to treat in detail later. One fine new species of 

 Anisolabisj however, I describe here. 



Anisolahis Greeni^ sp. n. 



Statura raediocri ; corpus totum minutissime granulatum, pilis noii- 

 nullis loiigis pallidis ornatum ; antennae 15-segmeutatse ; pronotum 

 quadratum, capite pauUo angustius, postice quam antice paullo 

 latius, antice medio subtiliter sulcatum ; mesonotum utrinque 

 rudimentaria elytrorum valde promiuula gerens ; metanotuni 

 valde sinuatum ; femora compressa ; segmentum anale atteiiuatum, 

 medio sulcatum, in S margine postico tuberculis binis utrinque 

 instructum. 



S lamina subgeuitalis triangularis, obtusa ; forcipis crura vaUda, 

 contigua, conica, inermia, apice valde decussata, crure dextro 

 supra et fortius incurvo. 



§ lamina subgeuitalis obtusa, triangularis ; forcipis crura recta, 

 valida, basi distautia, medio dente parvo margine interne armata, 

 apicem versus attenuata, incurva, attingentia vel paullo decus- 

 sata. <S ? • 



6. ^ 2- 



Long, corporis 11'5-13 mm. 17 mm. 



„ forcipis .... 2 ,, 3-25 „ 



Head convex, shining black ; palpi and mouth-parts brick- 

 red ; antennse with first segment brick-red, the rest black, 

 except the four apical segments, which are pale. 



Pro-, meso-j and metanota shining black. 



Abdomen shining black, reddish beneath. 



Feet brick-red, the tarsi testaceous ; the femora banded 

 with fuscous at the base and at the apex. 



Forceps black. 



