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Sj)liingolabis hipartita, Kirb,. 1890, Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool., xxiii., p, 526, 



Habitat. — North India (Kirby) ; Ceylon, Punduloya, caught in a bungalow, 



X, 97. (^ (type form), and 9 attracted by light. The same, iv,, viii., ix., 97, 



attracted by light. Second form of $ less commonly, viii. 97. 9 9 at 



Punduloya, v. and vi., 97 (dark variety). 



This very pretty species seems to be fairly common in the neighbourhood 



of Punduloya. Of the two forms of the male, the type form, with long 



forceps, appears to be the commonest. The forceps of the second form, 



with the basal dilatation, approach more nearly to the typical Forficula, 



and represented an intermediate stage between such forceps as those of 



F. escherichi, Kr., and the typical A. biparlitj, Kirb. That the form of the 



forceps of the male is the only means of separating Forficula and Apterycjida 



is extremely unfortunate, and upon seeing only the second form of the male 



of this species, it would be purely a matter of opinion in which genus to 



range it. The forceps of the type form recalls certain Neotropical species 



of the genus. 



In the type form, the anal abdominal segment is less completely punc- 

 tulateii, and brighter in colour than in the second form. 



To a male of the type form Mr, Green has attached the following note^ — 

 " Glandular folds strongly developed ; the insect when handled gave off a 

 pungent odour, like that of the Bombardier Beetle.'' 



APTERYGIDA CINGALENSIS (Dohrn), 



Golden- yellow, the abdomen less brilhantly coloured ; the.prothorax and 

 elytra posteriorly dilated, with the sides not deflexed ; forceps almost 

 straight, the branches remote at the base, with an obsolete tooth on the 

 inner margin beyond the middle, 9. 



Long. 8i., lat, 2^., fore, long, 3^ mill. 



In Berlin Museum 9 and Ceylon (Nietner). 



Head arched, without impressed lines, shining; the antennae are 15-seg- 

 mentate, yellow. Hinder margin of the head in the middle slightly 

 emargiuate, Pionotum anteriorly narrower as broad as the lead, poste- 

 riorly broadened, the sides not turned, transparent horn colour ; hinder 

 border round, shining, smooth. Elytra scarcely longer than the prothorax, 

 slightly broadened posteriorly, the hinder border rounded, smooth and 

 shining like the head and prothorax. Abdomen posteriorly slightly narrowed, 

 the tubercles of the second and third segments very small, the last dorsal 

 segment fairly large, with a central line, the penultimate ventral segment 

 eatirely covering the ultimate. Branches of the forceps slightly caniculate 

 (jjetrenni), at the base nearly straight, incurved at the apex, with a blunt 

 tooth on the inside beyond the middle. Abilomenaad forceps reddish-brown, 

 puliescent. Sternum yellow; feet, hke the head, fairly long, the femora and 

 tibise slightly, the tarsi strongly pubescent ; the first and third tarsal segment 

 of the same length, the second very short, barely lobed. 



