508 ME. W. F. KTEBT ON FORFICTJLIDiE. 



tawny, gradually darkening, and clothed witli very short hairs ; 

 joint 2 transverse, joints 3 and 5 about twice as long as broad, 

 joint 4 shorter and joint 6 longer ; joints 3-6 are pear-shaped, 

 though 4 is rather truncated at the base ; joints 7-12 are longer, 

 more slender, and linear, but slightly rounded at each end ; the 

 rest are wanting ; pronotum and base of tegmina luteous, the sides 

 and back of the pronotum paler, rounded, and raised ; legs luteous, 

 knees broadly black ; tegmina black, except at base, with a few 

 long white bristles near the edges ; wings whitish, tipped with 

 black, on the black portion stand several long white bristles ; 

 abdomen reddish, the segments well separated ; forceps very stout, 

 contiguous, triquetral, regularly denticulated and hairy on th.e 

 inner edge, slightly raised towards the tips ; the extreme points 

 are turned inwards almost at a right angle. 

 Sal. Chontales, Nicaragua. 



G-enus YI. Diplatts, Serv. 

 Serv. Ann. Sci. Wat. xxii. p. 50 (1831) ; OrtJi. p. 50 (1839). 

 Type, Forficula macrocephala, Beauv., from Benin. 

 Unrepresented in the British Museum collection. 



Genus YII. Nannoptq-ia, Dohrn. 

 Bohrn, Stett. enf. Zeit. xxiv. p. 60 (1863). 

 Type, N. GerstaecTceri, Dohrn, from Ceylon. 



Nannoptgia Dohrni, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 10 millim. ; segm. ult. cum forcip. 2| millim. 



Female. Blackish or dark brown, very shining ; tegmina pur- 

 plish, scutellum distinct, abdomen reddish, wings not visible; 

 antennae at least 18-jointed, brown, joints 1-3 yellowish, and 13 

 and extremity of 12 whitish ; legs testaceous, femora ringed with 

 black ; abdomen punctured, segments 2 and 3 with small lateral 

 tubercles, terminal segment large, quadrate ; forceps broad, cul- 

 triform, subcontiguous, denticulated on the inner edge, and 

 rather abruptly hooked at the tip. 



ILal. Ceylon. 



G-enus YIII. Echinosoma, Serv. 



Serv. Orth. p. 34 (1839) ; Dohrn, Stett. enf. Zeit. 



xxiv. p. 63 (1863). 



Type, Forficula afra, Beauv., from S. Africa. 

 Includes several other African and Oriental species. 



