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PYGIDICRANA PIEPERSI. 



Wings present, as greyish yellow flaps, beneath the sides 

 of the elytra. 



Feet yellowish; the tarsi short and broad, the 1 st and 

 3 rd segments about equal. 



Abdomen slender at the base, gradually widening apically, 

 greyish brown, smooth and tomentose. 



Last dorsal segment ample, longer than broad, blackish 

 red, posterior margin incrassate and darkened, roundly 

 convex, slightly sinuate at the apex itself. 



Penultimate ventral segment narrow, long, subacute, with 

 a median sulcus, the apex itself with a small shallow 

 emargination. 



Forceps with the branches depressed, triquetre, stout and 

 contiguous, straight, tapering and hooked at the apex ; the 

 right branch more so than the left, the inner margin finely 

 crenulate. 



Hab. Western Java (M. C. Piepers, 1 ^ in the Leyden 

 Museum). 



A member of the group containing P. vitticollis Stal, 

 P. modesta Borra., P. ophthalmica Dohrn and P. atriceps 

 Kirby, characterised by the abbreviated elytra, ample scu- 

 tellum, subrectangular pronotum, lanceolate penultimate 

 ventral segment of the cT, contiguous forceps and short, 

 broad tarsi. 



It differs from all these species in coloration and pattern. 



Labia myrmeca, sp. n. 



Minima; nigra, pronoto elytrisque variegatis; caput mag- 

 num, tumidum. Q. 



Long, corporis 2.75 mm. 



» forcipis 0.25 » 



Exceedingly small; black, with variegated pronotum and 

 elytra; strongly pubescent. 



Antennae reddish brown, with 10 segments, 4 th sub- 

 cylindrical, decidedly shorter than 3 ld , 5^ almost equal to 

 the third, the others gradually lengthening. 



Head large, convex, tumid, shining black. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



