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Louisiana: Arcadia, VIII, 20, 1915, (Rehn & Hebard; in great num- 

 bers under bark of dead birch, many immature individuals not taken ; 

 Prolabia pidchclla also present, but much less numerous"), 23 <$ , 339, 

 39 juv., [Hebard Cln. and A. N. S. P.]. 



This species is usually found under the bark of dead trees. 

 We have found it only on magnolia and birch. 



The insect has a very wide distribution over the southern 

 and eastern portions of the United States, but is so rarely en- 

 countered that the records give little definite information as 

 to the limits of its distribution. In Florida it has not been 

 taken south of Enterprise. The most western records are 

 Clifton and Columbia, Texas. The most northern are Dallas, 

 Texas 3 ; Arcadia, Louisiana ; Cumberland Gap, Kentucky, and 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The insect has once been found 

 locally in very large numbers and has been reported common 

 in Texas by Belfrage. Over the greater portion of its dis- 

 tribution in the United States it may, however, rightly be 

 termed a rare species. The distribution in the Americas of this 

 species and Darn linear c, are the widest known for any non- 

 domiciliary earwigs of the New World. 



5. Spongovostox apicedentatus (Caudell). 



1876. Spongophora brunneipennis Scudder, (in part, not Fsalidophora 

 brunncipennis Serville, 1839), Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., 

 II, p. 252. [Arizona.] 



1902. Spongophora brunneipennis Scudder and Cockerell, (not 

 Fsalidnphora brunncipennis Serville, 1839), Proc. Davenport Acad. 

 Sci., IX, p. 18. [La Cueva, Organ Mountains, New Mexico.] 



1904. Labia melancholica Rehn, (not of Scudder, 1876), Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, p. 562. [Florence, Arizona.] 



1905. Spongophora apicedentata Caudell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXVIII, p. 461, fig. la. [Columbia, Texas: Catalina Springs, Tucson 

 (type locality) and Fort Yuma, Arizona; Los Angeles and San Diego 

 Counties, California.] 



1911. S[pongoT'osto.v] apicedentatus Burr, Deutsch. Ent. Nat.- 

 Biblioth., IT, p. 59. (Generic assignment.) 



Arizona: Sabino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, 3800 feet, VII, 

 8 to 20, 1916, (Lutz & Rehn), i?, [A. M. N. H.]; Sabino Canon, 



3 Bruner's southeastern Nebraska record of the species may be 

 valid, but seems decidedly doubtful. No material from that region 

 is to be found in the Bruner Collection. 



