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[N.S.] 
2.2. Colour lighter. 
3. Elytra dull orange red, wit 
narrow black bands .. 2. armatus, Haan. 
3.3. Elytra dull brown .. 38. ceylonicus, Motsch. 
(elytra shining black, with orange 
shoulder and foot) .. .. 4. politus, sp. n. 
p. 185. 
Cordax forcipatus, Haan. 
Forficula (Opisthocosmia) forcipata, Haan (1842), p. 242, 
pl. 23, fig. 11, 
Opisthocosmia forcipata, Borm. (1909), 
p. 95 (nec Burr). 
Opisthocosmia erroris, Burr (i904), p. 308. 
prominent : antennae red-brown or blackish, with long, thin, 
- eal, (a) in the typical form straight, parallel and contiguous for 
about two-thirds their length, then armed with a strong shar 
tooth on the upper surface, beyond which they are elliptically 
arcuate, meeting at a thickened tooth before the apex, or ( ) 
by variety, only subparallel, the upper tooth and ante-apical 
tooth almost or entirely obsolete, and very feebly arcuate in 
ture : the small orange-red shoulder spot figured by Haan is 
darkened at the teeth. 
