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Vol. VIL, No. 11.] Indian Earwigs. 787 
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Legs prea anterior femora, which are decidedly 
thickened, often 
Abdomen sabparale -sided, deep reddish chestnut, hairy, 
and finely punctula 
Last dorsal seiptiieit 3 2 rectangular, transverse, posterior 
margin truncate, darker in colour, somewhat tumid over the 
insertion of the ‘forceps, with a pair of small, compressed 
tubercles in the middle. 
Penultimate ventral segment # ample, quadrate, pos- 
terior margin gently sinuate; 2 broadly roun 
idium prominent in both sexes: in 3 depressed, 
rather broad, triangular, apically, acute; in ¢ depressed , 
road, quadrate, apically truncate. 
Forceps with the branches very hairy, deep reddish chest- 
nut, depressed, sub-trigonal, remote, elongate, and gently 
roy ¥ 
Long. — .. 75—8mm... 7:5—8:25 mm 
$5 cipis . 2—3 2—2°5 
SouTHERN Inpia : Madura District, Shembaganur, 11 ¢ 3, 
8 92 (Astruc ; coll. mzhi). 
In coloration and general structure, this species resembles 
Ch. feae, but it is a size larger, the armature of the forceps is 
not quite the same, and the pygidium is acute, not bifid. 
is quite different from those of its congeners, which 
have — pygidia. 
h. aculeata, Borm., it differs in the straight forceps 
of die male — apg pygidium o of the ? ; from the Afri- 
decidedly greater size, much broader, less oe pygidium, 
and laminate, not spiniform teeth of the fore 
This species appears to be fairly soautant, for the only 
variation, beyond eee difference in size, in the several 
specimens examined, is in the coloration of the = in about 
half the specimens, the anterior femora are blac 
p- 127. 
Sphingolabis holds good, including S. hawaiiensis, Bor 
(Lombok and Hawaii), and S: villica, Burr. (S. Africa), as call 
as its type, S. furcifer (Sumat ra). 
But Chaetospania being revi vived, as already mentioned, 
Sphingolabis feae is restored to its original genus. 
