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[N.S.] 
Last dorsal segment flat, broad, with a little hump on 
cnn 
folded up, simple. 
2 
Long. corporis oe mm. 11 mm. 
»,  forcipis 4 
NortHerN Inpia: Upper Sth District, Bashahr,2 ¢, 
3 Q (Stoliczka, 1866, Mus., Vienn 
his species was brought a India by Stoliczka as long 
ago as 1866, but never described: the eee: two males 
and three females, are in the Vienna Mus 
It is well characterized by its onifet rm dark- brown colour 
and simple arcuate forceps. Superficially, it somewhat recalls 
Forficula schlagintweiti, Burr. 
p. 164. 
Guanchia, Burr. 
Guanchia, Burr, Gen. Ins. Derm., p. 86 (1911). 
Type: G. cabre rerae, Bolivar. 
Differs only from Forficula in the abbreviated elytra, ahagrs 
are decidedly rigid hig so that the sutural margin i 
much shorter than the costal. 
vonage — islands, foo and India 
This a very natural genus, although a convenient 
one: it von ori nhally toy ri a group of four species peculiar 
to the Canary Islands, to which was added one os form. 
We have to include now two Indian species 
Table of Species. 
1. Colour dull brown-black: forceps 
g crested above; third and 
fourth antennal segments rather 
long Se os te 1. chirurga, sp. n. 
1.1. Colour shining black: forceps ¢ 
not crested: third h 
antennal segments relatively — 
short .. os as 2. medica, sp. n. 
Guanchia medica, sp. n. 
Antennae light brown, darker apically; segments all rela. 
tively short, especially third and fourth. 
