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encircled with brown fuscous. The r<>\\ "1 s|,,,ts parallel to the 

 outer margin is made to continue in its sub-marginal course by 

 the addition of two spots placed parallel t<> the costal margin. 

 Beneath the discal spot and towards the abdominal margin there 

 is another somewhat smaller. 



Body and thorax above and below concolorous with the \vings; 

 head above the same, below much brighter. Antenna anmilated 

 with black and the general color, brighter at base of tip, then 

 black, and finally ending in a long tapering tip of the general 

 color. 



Habitat. Mexican boundary of Texas; Mexico; Central Am.: 

 Brazil ( ? ). The locality was unknown when the insect was figured 

 bv Westwood. 



Notes and Ne\vs. 



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ABCANTIIIA I'AIMSTRILLA IN NESTS OF THE RARN SWALLOW. While 

 \\orkmcn were nailing sonic brackets beneath the eaves of the college 

 barn in the latter part of last August preparatory to putting up ne\\ eave- 

 troughs, they complained of receiving a shower of bed-bugs whenever 

 they pounded on the barn. The fact was reported to me and I imme- 

 diately went, bottle in hand, to get a supply of the bugs. 



A large flock of swallows had lived about the barn all summer and 

 reared their young and had recently deserted the place I lie eaves uere 

 Completely lined with their mud nests betueeii the ends of the rafter-,. 

 1 'pon examining these nests I found them to he literally alive with crawling 

 vermin someuhat resembling bed-bugs, but much smaller, more hairy, and 

 having a grayish |>ilose appearance instead of the naked brick-red appeal - 

 ance of the article that 1 had always seen. I lie outside of the nests were 

 in many places gray in color from the accumulation of tlieir \\hite egg- 

 shell-,. 'I'he largest of the bugs found in the nests measured bill i) >< \ of 

 an inch in length, while lull grown s|>ecimens of . /. /,-,/n /,/; i\r in my col- 

 leitioii measure fully ' 4 of an iiu h. 1 am indebted to Mr. Ashniead. ot 

 the Itivision ol 1-jitoinolo- \ at Washington, for the idi-ntilic.itioii of the 

 speci" . Mr. Ashniead tells me that he does not think that this species 

 has ever b tore been reported in I his country. It is a common spec ies in 



