LABIA MYRMECA. 



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Pronotum narrower than the head, as broad as long, 

 anterior margin truucate, posterior margin rounded, sides 

 straight. Prozona brown red, metazona dark brown in the 

 centre and white at each side. 



Elytra short, but longer than pronotum, blackish brown, 

 with a round white discoidal spot, the apical extremity 

 white. 



Wings abbreviated. 



Femora and tibiae rather thick, brown ; tarsi slender, 

 yellow, 3 rd segment not very hairy. 



Abdomen convex, shining, purple-black, very minutely 

 punctulated; stout in the middle, tapering towards the apex. 



Last dorsal segment angustate and truncate. 



Forceps subcontiguous, straight, tapering, hairy. 



Hab. Java: Semarang. — 1 O in the Leyden Museum. 

 (Edw. Jacobson, 1896). 



This species, which has the distinction of being the 

 smallest earwig known, somewhat resembles L. feae in 

 colour; it may be known by the large, wide and tumid 

 head and by the coloration of the elytra and pronotum. 

 These points are so distinctive, that I have not hesitated 

 to name and describe it, even though the male is not known. 



Eastry, Kent, May 28th 1908. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum Vol. XXX. 



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