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ANTENNZE with 9 segments, black ; No. 2 reddish, Nos, 7-8 white, the rest 

 black segments 1 long, 2 shorter, the rest quite round, as broad as long, 

 gradually ; larger, the ninth a little smaller than the eighth, which is the largest. 



PHONOTEM broader than the head, elongate, trapezoidal, the sides raised ; 

 mesonotum narrow, strongly impressed anteriorly, the posteriorly part being 

 therefore slightly elevated, the sides are keeled and the anterior angle slightly 

 broader than thepronotum; metanottim as broad as the mesonotum, and expos- 

 ing only a small part of the first abdominal segment. 



FEET long ; tibiise and tarsi testaceous ; femora testaceous, with a strouc 

 broad black band ; first tarsal segment longer than the second and third 

 together ; abdomen cylindrical, the lateral tubercles very distinct on the 

 second and third segments ; last segment very small in both sexes. 



FORCEPS very short, slender ; in the $ the branches, are remote at the 

 base, slightly incurved, meeting at the apex, unarmed ; $ subcontiguous 

 almost straight, crossing at the apex. $ $. 



Hahitat.—P\mdin\oj&, Ceylon, $ and $ in coitu (E, E. Green). 



This little species is considerably smaller than i^.^jMwctoi!-/, from wLich it 

 may be distinguished by its deeply impressed metanotum, much shorter and 

 rounder antennal segments ; it may be (separated from B. hifoveolata, from 

 Trichinopoly, by the presence of tubercles on the second as well as the third 

 abdominal segments, by its smaller size, black banded femora, and shorter 

 antennae. The 9-segmentato antennee with very small round segments are 

 characteristic. 



The extreme brevity of the antenna led ine at first to consider them 

 mutilated, but Mr. Green writes that when freshly taken the " penultimate 

 and antepenultimate " were white. 



FORCIPVLA, Bol. 



Large insects. Abdomen with segments on each side tuberculate o.' spined • 

 branches of the forceps very long, little shorter than the body, slender 

 smooth or finely denticulate, nearly straight, the apices crossing in the 9 

 strongly incurved in the middle, then straight and parallel, then incurved 

 at the apex, sometimes with a strong internal tooth in the male. 



Forcipula, Bol., 1897, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 283. 



This genus which can be easily recognised by its form and the shape of the 

 forceps, and especially by the tubercles or spines on its sides, included the 

 large spiny earwigs previously referred to, Lalidura, to which it is otherwise 

 closely allied. 



FORCIPULA QUADRISPINOSA, Dohrn. 

 Dark or castaneous ; abdominal segments (in the $) Nos. 2-5 with stronw 

 lateral spines ; forceps long, the branches distant at the base, gently curved 

 keeled above, flat beneath, denticulated on the inner margin, with a strong 

 tooth in the middle, then attenuated, almost parallel, curved in at the apex. 

 Head black or dark-brown ; feet brown or yellowish, the ends of the 



