388 Mr. M. Burr— iVo^es 07i the Forficularia. 



scutellum parvum ; elytra arapla ; alee loiigoD ; segmcntum iilti- 

 miim dorsale c? anaplum quadratum ; segmontum pemiltimum 

 ventrale c? amplum, latum, margiue postico medio leviter oxciso, 

 angnlis late rotuudatis ; forcipis bracchia c? basi remota, depressa, 

 elongata, sensim arcuata, ante apicem dcnte iiiteriio forti 

 armata. J . 



6. 



Long, corporis 20 mm. 



„ forcipis 4'5 „ 



Antennae testaceous. 



Head testaceous, with a black spot on the frons and a 

 narrow black border round the occiput. 



Pronotum parallel, longer than broad, subrectangular. 



Angles rounded, testaceous, with two broad black bands. 



Scutellum small, testaceous. 



Elytra black, with a reddish-yellow discoidal spot in the 

 anterior portion. 



Wings yellow, faintly shaded with fuscous. 



Feet testaceous, the femora indistinctly marked with 

 fuscous ; tarsi slender, first segment longer than third. 



Abdomen blackish, with a tine dense pubescence. 



Last dorsal segment J" ample, square, smooth, simple. 



Penultimate ventral segment ^ ample, broad, angles 

 broadly rounded, posterior margin with a small median 

 emargination. 



Forceps (^ with the branches depressed ; at the base itself 

 they are dilated, so as to be almost contiguous, but this 

 portion is exceedingly short, and the branches appear to be 

 remote at the base ; they are rather slender, gently arcuate, 

 and armed with a strong tooth near the apex on the inner 

 margin. 



German East Africa: Hinterland, PNguru {Rohrherk). 



This form is barely distinguishable trom P. frontalis, 

 Kirby, from the Caaieroons ; in that species the short apical 

 portion of the forceps beyond the tooth is straight, in P. sepa- 

 rata it is arcuate ; in the latter the last dorsal segment is 

 smooth (granulose in P. //•oritalis) ; the t\ytvn oi P . frontalis 

 have two narrow reddish bands instead of a large oval spot. 



In the form taken by Sjostcdt at Kilimandjaro (Burr, in 

 Sjostedt^s ^Exped. Kilimandjaro,^ 17. Orthopteren, 1. l)erma- 

 toptera, p. 3, pi. i. tig. 1, c^ , 1907) (SjiJstedt's specimen), 

 the elytra have the whole anterior portion pale, and the 

 last dorsal segment is not so smooth. At first I regarded 



