1914.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 377 



Anisolabis maritima (Gen6). 



Key West, Fla., July 5, 1912; 4 d^, 5 9 , 1 n. 



This species was found, as in the winter, swarming under coquina 

 boulders and drift on the beach. Individuals have almost always 

 been found in the proximity of salt water. 



Labidura bidens (Olivier). 



Key West, Fla., July 7, 1912; 1 d^, 1 9 . 



One of these specimens was taken moving actively across a coquina 

 road after dark. At that hour, with the aid of a flash-lamp, this species 

 was seen in numbers near piles of coquina and about dwellings near the 

 beach. This insect is frequently found with the preceding species. 

 Labia minor (Linn.).'' 



Key West, Fla., July 7, 1912; 1 9 . 



This specimen, the first record of this cosmopolitan species from 

 Florida, was found between boards in the wood shed where the 

 series of Blaherus atropos was taken. 



Prolabia unidentata (Beauv.). 



Homestead, Fla., July 10, 1912; 1 cf , 1 9 . 



These two individuals, both lacking wings, were taken under the 

 bark of a dead pine log in the pine woods, where in like situations 

 the species is occasionally found throughout the year in this region, 

 though seldom in large numbers. 



Prolabia arachidis (Yersin). 



1876. Labia brunnea Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVIII, p. 264. 



Homestead, Fla., July 10-12, 1912; 7 cT, 13 9 , 3 n. 



This cosmopolitan species was found rather numerous in the greasy 

 kitchen of the boarding house at Homestead. After dark the 

 insects would appear in numbers accompanied by swarms of Peri- 

 planeta americana, but the series was secured with difficulty, as the 

 insects were very active and invariablj^ scuttled awaj^ into cracks 

 in the walls and tallies at the first approach of a light. Individuals 

 were greasy and unclean. 



Caudell^ has recently placed Scudder's Labia hrunnea correctly in 

 the synonymy under the present species. 



Though this species has been found introduced in the United 



* The species, Labia curvicauda, which was found so plentiful in March, 1910, 

 on Long Kej', was not seen in the summer of 1912. PeeuHar conditions following 

 the hurricane of 1909 afforded the opportunity to take the series on the earlier 

 date, and had dying tops of cocoanut palms been present in the summer of 1912 

 there is little doubt but that the species would have been then found abundant. 



5 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLIV, p. 598 (1913). 



