506 ME, W. F. KIEBT OlST FOEFICTTLID^. 



Genus III. PTGiDiCEAJiirA, Serv. 



Serv. Ann. Sci. Nat. xxii. p. 30 (1831) ; Orth. p. 19 (1839) ; 



BoJirn, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv. p. 46 (1863). 



Type, P. v.-nigrum, Serv., from Brazil. 



Ptgidiceana Hoesfieldi, sp. n. (PI. XII. figs. 11, 11«.) 



Long. Corp. 21 millim. ; segm. term, cum forcip. 6 millim. 



Male. Blackisli-brown ; antennae upwards of 22-jointed ; cly- 

 peus, except at base, lower mouth-parts, and legs rufo-testaceous ; 

 lateral borders of prouotum and wings straw-coloured ; tegmina 

 and forceps inclining to chestnut ; terminal segment of abdomen 

 very large, fully as large as tbe four penultimate segments 

 togetlier; forceps about as long as tbe terminal segment, simple, 

 pointed, and strongly upcurved at the extremity. 



Sah. Java {JELorsfiela). 



Allied to P. palUdipennis, De Haan, but much smaller and 

 darter. 



PxGHDICEAIfA STAEHYLINOIDES, Wallc. 



Olyntba staphylinoides, Wallc. List Neur. Ins. B. M. iii, 

 p. 532, n. 3 (1853). 



Described by "Walker from a headless and tailless fragment ; 

 but a second specimen, likewise in poor condition and immature, 

 shows it to be a Pygidicrana, which may be briefly described as 

 follows : — 



Female. Long. corp. 14 millim. ; segm. ult. cum forcip. 

 5-^ millim. 



Head above dull black ; mouth-parts and under surface brown ; 

 antennse brown ; scape nearly black above, paler below ; pronotum 

 testaceous, with a wide brown band on each side ; tegmina broAvn, 

 scutellum and suture probably pale ; legs testaceous ; femora 

 marbled with brown above; abdomen black, very bairy, with, 

 a pale longitudinal band covering tbe middle five segments on 

 the upper side ; forceps red, contiguous, unarmed. 



Sal). Santarem. 



This insect cannot be the immature form of any knovsna 

 American species, for in all these tbe scape of tbe antennse is paler 

 than the flagellum. 1 should not have described it from so poor 

 a specimen, had it not been already on our lists under the name 

 of Olyntlia staphylinoides, as the supposed larva of a Neuropterous 

 insect. 



