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Show 260 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 prothorax, their hinder edge straight and apparently oblique; the wings appear to have surpassed the tegmina; the legs are very short ( especiallythe 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 which 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, inclnd ing forceps, 14.5mm; of antennae, l lmm; of pronotum, LBS""*; of tegmina, 2.5mm; of hind femora, 1.8mm; of forceps, 2.25mm. % |