a(n) is also the number of forests of 4 labeled rooted trees of height at most 1 with n labels, where any root may contain >= 1 labels.
This gives also the fifth column of the Sheffer triangle A143496 (4-restricted Stirling2 numbers). See the e.g.f. given below. See also A193685 for Sheffer comments and the hint for the proof in the o.g.f. formula there. - Wolfdieter Lang, Oct 08 2011