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and the anterior border straight. Elytra long, smooth, shining black 

 sometimes with a bronze sheen, emarginate at the apex ; wings pro- 

 minent, the same colour as the elytra. Feet black, the tarsi reddish 

 or testaceous, pubescent. Abdomen cylindrical, finely granulated, the lateral 

 tubercles very distinct. Anal segment large, smooth, the hinder margin 

 straight, tuberculated and folded, impressed in the middle. Forceps, $ 

 with the branches remote at the base, stout, of two forms, either long with 

 a jagged dilatation at the base on the inner margin, attenuate, straight, gently 

 incurved to meet at the apex, with a strong tooth on the inner margin 

 nearer to the apex than to the base, or else short, stout, dilated, crenulated 

 inside at the base, strongly incurved, unarmed. In the $ the branches are 

 slender, unarmed, gently incurved to meet at the apex, where they sometimes 

 decussate. In the $ a pygidium is sometimes visible, short and obtuse ; in 

 the 9 the pygidium is distinct, short, obtuse, truncate. 



$ ? 



Length of body 13-5-17 mm 17-22m. 



„ of forceps ... 3-7 8 



Forficula morio, Fabr., 1775, Syst, Ent., 270. Burm., 1839, Handb. II., 752. 



Lobophora morio, Dohrn, 1865, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxvi., 71. 



Loboplmra rufitarm, Serv., 1839, Orth., 33. 



Forficula {Psalidophora) rufitarsis, de Haan., 1842, Verb. Nat. Gesch. 



Ned Bezitt., Orth., 241. 

 Lobophora negronitens, Stal., 1858, Eug. Resa.. 305. 



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L. tartarea, L. cincticornis, Stal., 1. c. 



CAeZisoc/ies mono, Scudd., 1876, Proc. Bost, Soc. N. H., xviii., 308, Borm. 

 1900, Forf.85. 



Habitat.— The Islands of the Pacific Ocean and also the neighbouring main- 

 land. India, Mauritius, Pulo Penang, Java, Celebes, Luzon, Fiji, Tahiti, 

 Owaihi, New Guinea, Roon, Batchian, Sumatra, Dorey. 



In Ceylon, Dohrn,, I have an immature specimen from Pundaloya (Green). 

 In the Hope Collection at Oxford there are numerous examples (Thwaites), 

 and in the Brussels Museum there are many others. Dohrn, too, records it 

 from Ceylon. It is distributed throughout the Oriental, and part of the 

 Australian Regions. The two forms appear to be equally common, and these 

 numerous gradations between them, 



CHELISOCHES PULCHELLUS, Gerst. 



Of small size ; the general colour dark. The head is reddish, the eyes 

 black ; the antennse have 13 segments (Gerstaecker), dark testaceous in 

 colour, the first segment considerably paler, Pronotum straight in front, 

 rounded behind, dark shining brown in colour, the sides paler. Elytra and 

 wings perfectly developed ; the fprmer rich dark-brown in colour, with a 

 bright testaceous oval spot at the shoulder ; wings prominent, bright testaceoua 

 with the suture and apices dark-brown. Abdomen rich shining brown ; the 



