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ronotum dark-brown, with yellow sides and faint median 
iio stripe : nearly oval, subtrancate posteriorly. 
um equilateral, prominen 
Elytra black, with discoidal lice spot, broad, rather 
short, apically truncate. 
Wings rudimentary. 
Legs yellow. 
Abdomen deep brown, gradually dilated towards the apex. 
Last dorsal segment inflated, ample, deep chocolate, with 
a median sulcus, finely rugulose, the external angles pro- 
duced as a crested tubercle. 
Penultimate ventral segment ample, very broad, and 
rounded. 
Forceps subcontiguous, broad and depressed asymmetri- 
cally arcuate, the external margin raised near the base with 
an erect blunt crested tooth. 
of 
Long. corporis es 30 mm. 
»,  forcipis 6 
Inpta : Nilgiri Hills, 6000 ft. 
H. L. Andrewes, i. "hype in B.M.). 
_ This species resembles P. valida, but differs in the colora- 
tion, uniform legs, short, truncate ely tra and aborted wings, 
crest on exterior angles of the mg dsieat segment, and external 
erect basal tooth of the force . 
The structure of the last “dorsal segment and forceps is 
almost identical with that of D. kallipyga. 
p. 64. 
Picrania angustata, Dohrn. 
I refer to this species a male in my collection taken by Mr 
ve E. E. Green in the Nilgiris, at Kharkur Ghal, on April 17th, q 
pp. 67 and 68. 
The placing of Palex sparattoides, Borm., as a subfa mily 
of the Labiduridae is confirmed by Zacher after study of the 
male gonapophyses ‘hed 
Thave come to the conclusion that the creature descr" 
p. 70. 
The Echinosomatinae must be removed from the Labi 
dae to the = oot roumen in spite of the absence of keels ' 
