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Length of body, 4.5; of pronotum, .86; of tegmen, 1.16; of exposed 

 portion of wing, .41; of forceps, 1.36; width of pronotum, .88; of ab- 

 domen, 1.6 mm. 



Head and pronotum bister. Tegmina and wings snuff brown. Dor- 

 sal surface of abdomen auburn, shading to blackish brown latero- 

 cephalad. Forceps auburn. Antennae, limbs and underparts buck- 

 thorn brown. 



The type is unique. 



8. Labia curvicauda (Motschulsky). 



1863. Forficelisa curvicauda Motschulsky, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 

 XXXVI, p. 2, pi. II, fig. i. [Nura-Ellia Mountains, Ceylon.] 



1912. Labia curvicauda Rehn and Hebard, Proc, Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1912, p. 237. [Long Key, Florida.] (First United States 

 record.] 



The species is known from the United States only from 

 the large series taken at Long Key, Florida, in the dying 

 tops of cocoanut palms, at the white bases of the petioles 

 where these were moist. 



3. Prolabia pulchella (Serville). 



1839. Forficula pulchella Serville, Hist. Nat. Ins., Orth., p. 42. [Nia- 

 gara, New York 8 .] 



1876. Labia guttata Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVIII, 

 p. 265. [Texas.] 



1876. Labia burgessi Scudder, ibid., p. 266. [Palatka, Florida.] 

 1876. Labia melancholica Scudder, ibid., p. 267. [Waco, Texas.] 

 1900. Labia pulchella Bormans, Das Tierreich, p. 65. [Texas.] 

 1911. Labia unidentata Burr, (in part, not of Beauvois, 1917), Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXVIII, p. 451. [Florida; Thomasville, Georgia; 

 Texas.] 



1911. Prolabia unidentata Burr, (in part, not of Beauvois, 1917), 

 Gen. Ins., Fasc. 122, Dermapt, p. 57. [United States.] (Generic as- 

 signment.) 



Careful comparison of all the material before us of the Unidentata 

 Group, proves conclusively the above synonymy, as has been indicated 

 by Burr. Contrary to that author's opinion, however, the species 

 found in the United States is distinct from the West Indian Prolabia 

 unidentata (Beauvois). 



In pulchella, the male pygidium is distinctive in being roughly sub- 

 quadrate, with broad distal margin subtruncate. 



8 One specimen, collected by Schaum, bore no data : the other was 

 labelled "Niagara"; clearly mislabelled or an advcntive specimen. 



