7196 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1911. 
Forceps with the branches in the o feebly dilated at the ; 
base itself, gradually attenuated from the base, and strongly 
arcuate, finely denticulate about the middle, with a tumid, low 
tubercle on the upper surface at the angle of the dilated por- — 
tion: in the 2 simple contiguous. 
? 
Long. corporis “ 8 mm. 8 mm. 
», forcipis 2 15 
E. Himatayas: Darjiling District, Phallut, 12,000 feet, 
April 1910, 1 ¢, 1 @. (Ind. Mus. Nos, 5046 and 5047/16: 
C. W. Beebe). 
Type in Indian Museum. 
Beebe was investigating the food of the pheasants which oc 
along the Darjiling-Sikkim and Nepalese frontier, at an altitude 
of from 10,000 to 13,000 feet : in April, thousands of a red 
yellow lily occur, their three-chambered seed-cases rising 
through the snow: these seem to form the more or less per 
manent resting-place of several species of insects, which afford 
an important item in the food of the Blood-Pheasants, SB 
| oh Pipits which occur there. a 
i ree 
cases both were in the same partition, and one p contained 
an earwig in one partition, and a Coccinella and a magge 
another, so that 70 % of the seed-cases contained one or mor 
earwigs. 
The material thus found consisted of this pair of F. be 
and a yellow-bellied variety of F. schlagintweitt, Burr. 
p- 185. 
Genus Corpax, Burr. 
Table of Species. 
1. Forceps contiguous at base. 
- Colour nearly black, elytra 
sometimes with small red spot : 
(not shining) ee .. 1, foreipatus, H 
