32O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, '17 



Alabama: Greenville, VIII, 3, 1915, (M. Hebard; under bark of dead 

 sweet gum), i9, [Hebard Cln.]; Evergreen, VIII, 3, 1915, (M. 

 Hebard; under bark), 2$, 4?, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Louisiana: Nairn, XI, 1892, (H. E. Weed), i9 9 , [A. N. S. P.] ; 

 Arcadia, VIII, 20, 1915, (Rehn & Hebard; few under bark of dead 

 birch, where Vostox brnnneipennis was abundant), 2$, 5 9 10 . [Hebard 

 Cln. and A. N. S. P.]. 



This insect is common under the dead bark of trees in the 

 southeastern United States, but particularly of dead pines of 

 various species. Among deciduous trees it has been found 

 under the bark of Sweet Gum, Oak, Magnolia and Birch. 

 The winged condition has been much more frequently found 

 under bark of deciduous trees, but this is not a rule. 



The species is widely distributed over the southeastern 

 United States, but has not as yet been secured on the Florida 

 Keys. Its northern boundary on the Atlantic coast is the 

 Fall line. The most northern records are Raleigh, North 

 Carolina ; Vienna, Georgia ; Montgomery, Alabama, and Ar- 

 cadia, Louisiana. The northwestern limits are Waco and 

 Bosque County, Texas. 



10. Prolabia arachidis Yersin. 



1860. Forficula arachidis Yersin, Ann. Soc. Ent. France. (3), VIII, 

 p. 509, pi. X, figs. 33 to 35. [[Adventive at] Marseilles, France.] 



1900. Labia burgessi Henshaw, (not of Scudder, 1876), Psyche, IX, 

 p. 119. [[Adventive at] Boston, Massachusetts.] (First United 

 States adventive material.) 



1911. Labia arachidis Burr, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXVIII, p. 

 453. [From ship at San Francisco from India.] 



1913. Prolabia arachidis Caudell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLJV, p. 

 598. [Adventive at San Francisco, California, and Brighton, Massa- 

 chusetts; Aiken, Florida.] (First United States established record.) 



Texas: Brownsville, VI, (H. F. Wickham), 1$, [Hebard Cln.]. 

 The present domiciliary insect is known from the United 

 States only from the above record and references, excepting 

 the series taken by Rehn and Hebard, at Homestead, Florida. 



9 This specimen is very pale in general coloration. 



10 All these, and the Greenville specimen, have fully developed 

 wings. In the series from Georgia and Florida, this condition is very 

 rare; represented in but 6, of 271 specimens examined. 



