524 ME. W. F. KIRBT OK I^OBPICULID^. 



off by a deep chaiiBel running between the eyes and, as well as 

 tbe vertex, is slightly depressed on the median line ; pronotum 

 oblong, channelled in front, the sides and the hinder lobe raised ; 

 tegmina and wings dull black, the latter very narrowly edged out- 

 side with reddish ; the projecting part about one third as long as 

 the tegmina ; legs very loug, ferruginous ; femora reddish brown. 

 Abdomen very finely punctured, narrow at the base, but widely 

 expanded beyond, the first 4 segments tuberculated on the sides, 

 the terminal segment with the extremity depressed, with 2 slight 

 elevations at the base of the forceps, and the hinder edge raised. 

 Porceps stout, raised, diverging, and then converging ; they first 

 form a short curve upwards, and then a much longer one at 

 almost a right angle downwards ; about the curve is a short strong 

 spine directed backwards ; beneath they are slightly denticulated 

 towards the base ; the long downward curves end in long, sharp, 

 slightly incurved spines, above which the forceps rise again in 

 short rounded curves, ending beneath in shorter spines ; and they 

 then rise again to form curved terminal spines, the tips of which 

 touch. 



Sab. Sarawak. 



Very similar to Forjicula longipes, De Haan, but much larger ; 

 and in F. longipes S only the first two abdominal segments are 

 tuberculated ; the species likewise differ in colour and in the 

 shape of the forceps. 



Genus XXVII. Aistechitea, Scudd. 

 Scudd. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 289 (1876). 



Type, Forjicula hipunctata, Fabr., from Europe. 



This species is included by Dohrn in his first section of Forji- 

 cula ; but few of the other species which he places with it are 

 congeneric with either Forjicula or Anecliura. Several new 

 genera will ultimately be required for their reception ; but for 

 the present they may be temporarily associated with SpMn- 

 golabis. 



Genus XXVIII. Foefictila, Linn. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 423 (1758) ; Serv. OrtTi. p. 35 (1839); 



Dohrn, Stetf. ent. Zeit. xxvi. p. 84 (1865). 



Type, F. auricularia, Linn., from Europe. 



This genus must be restricted to those species in which, as in 



