48 FAMILY I. FORFKTLIIUC. TI1K EAKWKiS. 



Miss. (}}'('('(!). r l'liis sji(-M-ies occurs beneath rubbish in both dry 

 and clamp localities; also beueath signs on trees, and a single 

 specimen was taken at Lakeland from beneath a pile of old paper 

 on the floor of a vacant house. Davis (1014, TJlM recorded the 

 finding of a female and sixteen young in a cell under an old rail- 

 road tie at Tablo I'.each, Fla., Sept. '27, 1M13. K. & H. < l\)()~. 31 > 

 state that at Key West it was taken in numbers by Ilebard be- 

 neath coquina rocks, sometimes in company with A. inuritiiiift, 

 and also with one or two large scorpions. 



This, the A. azteca of Scudder ilSKii,. i'r,l i and of Candell 

 i 1 !')(."), -Kit is also a cosmo];olitan specie's, widely distributed by 

 commerce. The first specimens recorded from the United States 

 (It. & H.. 1!M>4. ITS) were collected at Thomasville, Ga., though 

 specimens at hand were taken by H. E. Weed at Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Miss., 20 years before. Advent ive specimens have been re- 

 corded from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and the 

 District of Columbia, but its range in this country as given by 

 Hebard (1917, 313) is from Raleigh, X. Car., and Macon, Ga., 

 southward and westward along the coast to Texas, being "gen- 

 erally distributed and numerous in southern Florida, the Florida 

 keys and southern coastal California."' It ranges much farther 

 inland than does iiniritiiiifi, from which it can be readily distin- 

 guished by its shorter and narrower body, ringed legs and pale 

 postapical joints of antenna?. 



II. LABIDURA Leach, 1X15, US. (Gr., "forceps" + "tail.") 



Body long, slender, not strongly depressed; tegmina and wings 

 both well developed; amenme with L'T "<> joints, the first clavate, 

 as long as the fourth to sixth inclusive; abdomen somewhat 

 swollen or convex, especially above, the second and third segments 

 without lateral folds or tubercles; first tarsal joint equal to the 

 other two united, second not lobed. 



3. LAHTDURA IJIDK.NS (Olhier), 1791, 46C. Striped Fr.rv/if. 



Color somewhat variable, usually reddish-brown; pronotum, and teg- 

 n:ina fuscous-brown with a median stripe and narrow margins dull yellow; 

 abdomen dark brown above and below, the sides paler; legs and under 

 surface, except abdomen, pale yellow: antenna? brownish-yellow. Teg- 

 mina one-half longer than pronotum. the surface rugose-granulate, as art 

 also the short projecting tips of the wings. Abdomen more finely granu- 

 late, the anal segment with two email remote teeth! Forceps long, slen- 

 der, pointed feebly curved, their legs in male remote at base, their lowei 

 inner edges finely crenulate and with a blunt tooth just behind the mid- 



