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of the occiput. Antennae with more than thirty segments. The pronotam 

 is oval, narrower th-m thi head, pale-testaceous, with two parallel f usccua 

 bands. The scutellum is distinct and testaceous. The elytra are large and 

 broad, fuscous, with a testaceous spot. The visible part of the wings is 

 testaceous. The feet are light-testaceous, with fuscous spots and markings. 

 The body is cylindrical, black and shining, the last segment large and some- 

 what dilated, especially in the ^. The forceps are, in the ^, stout, the 

 branches contiguous at the base, dilated and flattened, bat almost immediately 

 diveiging, forming a sou ewhat elongate oval, the branches meeting a little 

 short of the apex, where there is a tooth. The branches are then contiguous 

 to the apex itself, where they decussate. In the 9 the branches of the 

 forceps are cylindrical, and straight, contiguous, unarmed, the apices slightly 

 decussating. 



The amount and depth of the colonration varies very considerably. The 

 forceps are usually black, but sometimes brownish, and often covered with 

 golden hairs. 



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Length of the body.... 23-28 mm 23-29 mm. 



„ „ forceps 8-10., 7-8-5 



Pygidicrana marmoncrura, Serv,, 1839, Orth., p. 20, 



Dohrn, 1863, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiv., 51. 

 Sciidd., 1876, Ent. Notes, V., p. 69. 

 (nee Diibr,, 1879, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen,, xiv., p. 

 351=P. j^wsc/ii,: Karsch,). 

 Borm. 1900, Forf. 19. 

 Pygidicrana marmorkaiida, Sharp, 1895, Insects, I, 215. (Cambridge Nat. 



Hist.) 



This soecies appears to be extremely common in Java. There is a specimen 

 in the Hope Collection, Oxford, labelled, " Thwaites, Ceylon," and I have 

 received from Mr. Green a single female that I refer with come doubt to this 

 species, from Matale, VI., 97, from beneath loose bark on the stems of cocoa- 



PYGIDICRANA NIETi\ERf,Dohvn. 



" Yellowish-fuscous, the antennaa. feet and pectus testaceous, the latter 

 with a dark spot in the middle of the segments ; the head yellow markings ; 

 the forceps reduish, with a yellow spot at the base 5 Lairy. Length of body 

 20, breadth 3, length of forceps 4jmm. 



Pygidicrana nietneri. Dohrn, 1863, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiv, 53, Borm. 1900, 

 Forf. 21. 



Head brownish-yellow, the frontal and occipital sutures bright-yellow, as 

 also, parallel with these, two short stripes, like the underside and antennae. 

 The hinder border is slightly rounded. Pronotum longer than broad, with 

 parallel sides ; in the centre is a clear yellow furri w, on each side of which 

 is a small dimple, brown, the narrow border clearer, with stiff hairs. 



