SUBFAMILY II. LABIIXvE. 



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die: those of female approximate at base, coarsely crenulate along the 

 inner edge, the left one slightly overlapping the right at tip. Length of 

 body, 13 20; of tegmina, 3.53.8; of forceps, $, 1 11, 9, 56 mm. 



Sanford, Dmiedin, Ft. Myers, Moore Haven and Utopia, Fla., 

 Dec. Apr. (W. 8. B.), numerous examples taken singly or in 

 pairs beneath cover along the margins of ponds and lakes. It 

 also occurs beneath debris along the seashore and is attracted by 

 light. Rehn, Hebard and Davis record it from Lakeland, Miami, 

 Key West, Punta Gorda and other points along the coast of south- 

 ern and western Florida, March Nov. R. & H. (1912, 237) state 

 that individuals from Key West ''were exceedingly repulsive ow- 

 ing to the fact that they emitted an odor suggesting carrion, but 

 even more nauseating. This seemed to originate not from an 

 ejected secretion, but from the oily surface of the body." 



This is also an introduced cosmopolitan species, its known 

 range in the United States extending from Raleigh, N. Car., south 

 and west to Louisiana and Texas. It is listed by Scudder (1900, 

 4) as Labidura riparia Pallas (1773, 727), described from Siberia, 

 but Burr (1911, 37) considers Olivier s species as distinct. 



Subfamily II. LABIINJE. 



Burr (1911, 4(V) briefly characterizes his family Labiidre 

 (equivalent to our Labiime) as follows: "Antennae with not 

 more than 25 segments ; second tarsal joint cylindrical ; femora 

 not compressed, smooth ; pygidium free." Three of the four 

 North American genera of this subfamily occur in our territory. 



a 



Fig. 26. a. Labia rchni Heb., female X 7- b, head of I'oxti>.v: c, of Labia. showing 

 length of cheeks behind the eyes; d, Doru davisi R. & H., male. X -- 8 - (After Caudell 

 and R. & H.) 



