Vol. VII, No. 11.] Indian Earwigs. 789 
[N.S.] 
3.3. 
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Build stout : forceps with teeth 
together: wings normally 
abortive oe .. 5. cunctator, sp. n. 
p- 136. 
Proreus delicatulus, sp. n. 
Size small: build slender: general colour tawny and red- 
dish. Antennae with 12—13 segments, yellowish brown, darker 
towards the apex ; all slender and cylindrical, but third short, 
and fourth hardly longer than broad ; fifth about as long as 
third, sixth longer. 
He depressed, smooth shining blackish brown, sutures 
obsolete. 
Pronotum about as broad as long, chocolate brown, shin- 
ing, ee by translucence at the sides, which are parallel ; 
posterior margin truncate, anterior convex 
Elytra smooth, ample, shining straw yellow, shading to 
darker at the margins 
ings prominent, ‘pale yellow, darker at the suture. 
Legs yellow 
bdomen shining chestnut red, darker at the sides, very 
finely punctulate. 
Last dorsal segment 3 rectangular, broader than long, 
truncate posteriorly, with a pair of minute sharp tubercles in 
the middle of the posterior margin ; narrowed in the °. 
Penultimate ventral segment 3 broad, truncate, in ° 
ee orl narrower. 
ium ¢ scarcely visible, meomes in ? hidden 
For with the branches in the @ remote, short, de- 
pressed, broad straight, apically incurred, with one strong and 
one weak tooth on the inner margin. 
ey 2 
Long. corporis 6 mm. 5°5 mm. 
»,  forcipis 15 1 
Cryion: Peradeniya, 9-vi-10 1 ¢ (type), and 6-v-09 1 2, 
at light. (Green; ¢.m.). 
This elegant little species recalls P. melanocephalus but is 
smaller and the build more slender and graceful: the forceps 
he 
body much less hairy. The pair of minute tubercles in the 
middle of the posterior margin of the last dorsal segment are 
absent in that species; they are, however, present in P. eunc- 
tator, but the dilated abdomen of that species distinguishes it 
at once 
