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Reddish-black, the head marbled with yellowish, the antennae greyish, 

 a median line and the margins of the pronotum, the scutellum, the suture 

 of the elytra to the base and a median spot on the elytra, the apices of the 

 wings, and the feet yellow, the femora spotted with black, the margins 

 of the abdominal segments reddish. 

 Length of body 17, breadth 2^, length of forceps 3 mm. $. 

 Pygidicrana angustata, Dohrn, 1863, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiv,, 56. 



Borm. 1900. Forf. 23. 

 Habitat. — Ceylon (Neitner). 



Head with shallow sutures, yellowish-grey, marbled ; underside pale-yel- 

 lowish-grey ; antennae grey, with thirty-seven segments. Pronotum longer 

 than broad, the sides parallel, brownish-black, the median line pale-yellow 

 with a narrow furrow ; near the hinder border the line is broadened out into 

 a yellow triangle with a black central line ; the sides are yellow with a some- 

 what dilated spot near the shoulder. The body is bristly. Scutellum narrow, 

 elongated pale-yellow. Elytra somewhat longer than the pronotum, brown, 

 with a long yellow central spot, and the basal half of the suture is yellow. 

 Wings but slightly projecting, clear-yellow. Sternum j^ellow, with brown 

 spots on the centre of the segments. Feet greyish-yellow, femora with two 

 black stripes on the anterior side, with one black spot beneath ; tibise with a 

 black ring at the base, and a black line in front, -first tarsal segment h nger 

 than the third. Abdomen brownish-black, clothed with silky hairs, with the 

 exception of the last segment ; this is shining, finely punctulated, the hinder 

 border convex. Forceps smooth beneath, keeled above, curved to the points 

 inwards, reddish-brown, with a yellow spot above at the base. $ in the 

 Berlin Museum. 



The most noticeable point in this species is that the head is narrower 

 than the pronotum. The only other species in which this is so is P. liturata, 

 Stal., an African form. 



PYGIDICRANA (?) DILATICAUDA (Motsch.) 

 Elongated, depressed, shining-black ; last ten antennal segments, the edges 

 of the abdominal segment, the forceps and cheeks more or less reddish- 

 yellow ; head subtransverse, subbilobed behind, transversely aubimpressed, 

 with three foveolae ; fourth antennal segment equal to the third ; thorax 

 slightly narrower than the head, somewhat elongated, depressed, anteriorly 

 with three faint longitudinal impressions, the hinder border arcuate, the 

 margin slightly sinuate in the middle, the sides slightly elevated, with a 

 distinct triangular scutellum. Elytra broader than the head, quadrate, pos- 

 teriorly excised triangularly at the suture, the shoulders rounded ; wings pro- 

 duced well beyond the elytra, coriaceous, shining-blackish, abdomen as broad 

 as the elytra, scarcely dilated in the middle, depressed, sparsely punctulated, 

 last segment broad, with a punctulation on each side, with a foveola in the 

 middle, at the binder margin with two impressions and two tubercles ; 



