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form of the head cannot be determined ; the antennae approach in length 

 the body, the first joint nearly cylindrical, scarcely enlarging at the tip, 

 about four times as long as broad ; the comparative or actual length of 

 the succeeding joints cannot be determined ; the prothorax has its hinder 

 margin entire and flat ; the tegmina are a little longer than the protho- 

 rax, their hinder edge straight and apparently oblique ; the wings appear 

 to have surpassed the tegraiua; the legs are very short (especially the 

 femora) and not stout; the abdominal joints are of equal length; the 

 forceps are peculiar, having the appearance of being strongly bowed, 

 although the specimen is a female ; they are very stout at the base, 

 rapidly and regularly diminish in size on the basal half (which is 

 about equal in length to two-thirds the last abdominal joint), beyond 

 wliich they are equal, about half as stout as the base, bent apparently 

 rather strongly inward, and very broadly rounded at the tip, a form of 

 forceps I have never seen in any living earwig. Length of body, includ- 

 ing forceps, 14.5™™ ; of antennae, 11™™ ; of pronotitm, 1.85™™; of tegmina, 

 2.5™™ ; of hind femora, 1.8™™ ; of forceps, 2.25™™. 



