54 FAMILY I. FORFICULID.E. THE EARWIGS. 



Ormond, Gainesville, Sanford, Miakka and Dunediu, Fla., Nov. 

 Apr. (ir. AS". B.}. Common beneath bark of dead pine trees and 

 taken also, but much less frequently, from beneath that of mag- 

 nolia and oak; the winged form much less common than the wing- 

 less (burgessi Scudder). Occurs throughout Florida except on 

 the Keys. Widely distributed over the Southern United States, 

 ranging from Raleigh, N. Car., and central Alabama south and 

 west to Waco, Texas. R. & H. (1904. 77!)) record the taking of 

 more than 150 specimens during several visits to a single dead 

 magnolia tree near Thomasville, Ga. Serville's type was from 

 Niagara, N. Y., and was probably an advent! ve at that place. 

 This is one of the few native earwigs of this country, and has been 

 described under at least five different names, viz., pulcliella Serv., 

 guttata, biirgcssi and melancholica Scudder, and iniidentata Burr 

 nee. Beauv. The fact that the preapical teeth of the male forceps 

 are often absent has led to part of this synonymy. 



9. PROLABIA ARACHIDIS (Yersin), 1860, 509. Brown Earwig. 



Dark, chestnut-brown, glabrous, mouth parts and antennae dull yel- 

 low; legs brownish-yellow, the femora often with a fuscous tinge at base. 

 Antennae 11- to 14-jointed. Pronotum quadrate, paler at the sides. Teg- 

 mina one-half longer than the pronotum; inner wings usually abbreviat- 

 ed or wanting. Forceps of male slightly more than half as long as abdo- 

 men, feebly curved, each leg with a very small basal and preapical tooth 

 on inner edge; of female one-third as long as abdomen, the inner edge 

 finely toothed, the legs incurved and crossing at tips. Length of body, 

 G.5 8; of tegmina, 1.31.5; of forceps, $, 2.4, 9, 1.8 mm. 



Brighton, Mass., Feb. 1, a number of adventive specimens taken 

 from a slaughter house (Horse). A tropical cosmopolitan species 

 taken at Homestead, Fla., by Rehn & Hebard (1914c, 377) July 

 10 12. They were found in the greasy kitchen of a boarding- 

 house, and after dark "would appear in numbers, accompanied by 

 swarms of the roach. Peri planet a aincrictuKi, but specimens of 

 the earwig were secured with difficulty, as they were very active 

 and scuttled away into cracks in the walls and tables at the first 

 approach of a light." A single female is also recorded from Aiken, 

 Fla. (CauflclL 1913, 59S), and a number of adventive specimens 

 from Boston, Mass. The type of Yersin was from southern Eu- 

 rope, where it occurs in and about houses. Labia brnnnea Scud- 

 der (1876b, 258), described from Cuba, is a synonym. 



Subfamily TIT. FORFICULIN^E. 



Body moderately depressed, the abdomen more strongly so in 

 our species; antennal segments cylindrical or subcylindrical. the 



