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parallel; second minute; third elongate, cylindrical, expanding very feebly 
and evenly to distal portion; fourth elongate ovate, nearly or quite as 
long as third; succeeding joints elongate spindle-shaped, increasing very 
slightly in length but decreasing appreciably in width distad and very 
small at intersections. (In most specimens the longest joints are three 
or even four times as long as broad.) 
Pronotum shining, very minutely impresso-punctulate, these punctula- 
tions being the sockets of minute hairs,’ except in convex prozonal por- 
tion where these are much fewer and weaker, supplied latero-cephalad 
with a few delicate bristles; length appreciably greater than width; lateral 
margins diverging very slightly caudad, rounding broadly into the very 
feebly convex, nearly transverse, caudal margin; surface of prozonal 
portion moderately convex, with a feeble medio-longitudinal linear sulcus 
and a weak or obsolete impression on each side. 
Tegmina appreciably less than twice as long as pronotum, with 
apices straight, truncate, transverse; surface shining, very minutely im- 
presso-punctulate, the punctulations being the sockets of minute hairs.” 
Exposed tips of wings about one-fourth (averaging this in the series, 
rarely one-third) as long as tegmina and similarly hairy. Abdomen with 
dorsal surface shining, supplied with even finer hairs, glands subobsolete; 
distal tergite with caudal margin very weakly and broadly obtuse-angulate 
convex above inner portion of each cercal shaft, surface feebly impressed 
meso-caudad.” Lateral portion of abdomen with a scattered supply of 
delicate bristles, ventral surface as hirsute as dorsal and lateral portions. 
Penultimate sternite with caudal margin broadly convex laterad and 
broadly concave mesad. 
Pygidium strongly declivent, then flattened out into a large horizontal 
plate with lateral margins broadly concave divergent to blunt points, which 
are situated slightly beyond the middle, then broadly concave and conver- 
gent to an equal degree to the small, sharply rounded distal apices, between 
which the distal margin is deeply and roundly emarginate. Forceps mod- 
erately elongate, hairy proximad, with many delicate bristles in other por- 
tions; straight proximad, flattened internally and weakly dorsad, from this 
portion showing a very slight inward curvature to the strongly incurved 
immediate apices, the distal portion strongly flattened oval in cross-section ; 
slightly beyond the pygidium a ventro-internal flange commences, widening 
gently and evenly and terminating at end of proximal three-fifths in a mod- 
erately large acute-angulate tooth, directed ventro-mesad. 
Limbs as described for pilicornis, except that the metatarsus is slightly 
‘The hairy covering of this species is not so dense and the hairs 
are decidedly finer in proportion to the body bulk than in L. pilicornis, 
(Motschulsky ). 
* See footnote 17. 
“The greater specialization of this tergite in females of dubronyi 
is an unusual occurence in the Dermaptera, the male sex showing the 
greater specialization in most of the species of the order. 
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