﻿PYGIDICRANA PIEPERSI. 



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NOTE XIIL 



TWO NEW DERMAPTERA 

 IN THE COLLECTION OF THE LEYDEN MUSEUM 



BY 



MALCOLM BURR, B, A„ F. E. S., F. L. S. 



Pygidicrana piepersi, sp, n. 



Sat gracilis; fulvo-rufa; tomentosa; pronotum subqua- 

 dratum ; scutellura amplum ; elytra brevia; alae abortivae ; 

 tarsi breves, lati, segmentis tertio primoque aeque longis ; 

 segmeDtum penultimum ventrale angustum, acutum ; forcipis 

 branchia contigua, depressa, apice arcuata. cf. 



Long, corporis 16.5 mm. 



» forcipis 3. > 



Rather slender; general colour reddish testaceous, shaded 

 with darker, entirely covered with a fine dense pale pub- 

 escence. 



Antennae typical, tawny. 



Head blackish, pubescent, rather flattened. 



Pronotum somewhat narrower than the head, subrectau- 

 gular, the sides parallel and corners rounded, longer than 

 broad; reddish testaceous, the prozona shaded with fuscous. 



Scutellum ample, as broad as the pronotum, nearly as 

 deep as broad, with a median suture, reddish testaceous, 

 pubescent. 



Sternal plates yellowish ; prosternum narrowed posteriorly, 

 mesosternum convex, rounded ; metasternum with lobe 

 broadened and somewhat sinuate posteriorly. 



Elytra narrow, dark orange yellow, hairy, cut away at 

 the axillary angle, exposing the ample scutellum, lanceolate 

 at the apex. 



Notes frora tlae Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXX. 



