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NOTES ON AUSTRALASIAN AND MELANESIAN 
DERMAPTERA. 
By Morgan Hebard. 
(Text-figures 1-4.) 
The following studies are based on the last collections of this Order 
belonging to the author which have not already been studied. The most 
important series in it are a small but interesting collection made at Kuranda, 
Queensland, by F. P. Dodd and a number of specimens received in exchange 
from the Burr Collection, the data on which has either not been fully published 
or in some cases not published at all ; while some of the determinations are 
incorrect. To this material has been added a small but very important 
unstudied collection belonging to the Australian Museum at Sydney, New- 
South Wales. A total of tw-entv-seven species are treated, of which two are 
described as new-. 
In recent years little has appeared on the Dermaptera of the regions 
here treated, Mjoberg’s studies in 1913 and 1924 being among the most 
important. These are evidently that author’s first efforts on this difficult 
Order where there is still sufficient confusion existing to show plainly why a 
number of species were incorrectly placed genericallv by Mjoberg, this and the 
great individual variation which occurs in many species accounting for a number 
of synonymic names proposed. Several interesting species were there described, 
however, and valuable data given on other known forms. 
PYGIDICRANIIPE. 
Tagalina semperi Dohrn. 
Mt. Lamington, Northern Division, Papua, V, 1927 (C. T. McNamara), 1 
large juv. $. 
In this specimen the pronotum has two dark bands which are convex- 
convergent to meet meso-caudad and which reach the cephalic margin laterad, 
that margin being as broadly dark brown. The head is very dark brown 
except for the pale dorsal and caudal portions of the occiput. 
In an adult male from F riederic h - W i 111 c I ms haf en , New Guinea, in the 
author’s collection, merest traces of such pronotal marking are present. 
Dicrana daemeli (Bormans). 
Cairns, Queensland, Australia, (J. F. Illingw-orth), 1 juv. 
