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body testaceous, except the elytra, which are more or less blackened 

 apically ; abdomen, and especially the venier, still paler, except for a 

 fuscous spot at the base of the first segment on each side below. 



Male. Length i 45 mm. Differs from the female in having the an- 

 tennae more slender and with the second joint nearly as long as the third, 

 and the eleventh nearly one-third longer than the tenth. Mandibles 

 stouter, the left one with a small median tooth. Ligula much shorter and 

 bilobed (see fig.) Maxillae with the inner lobe spinose and hooked at tip, 

 the outer lobe longer and very finely ciliate at the apex. Prothorax as 

 wide as the elytra and bearing three lateral and six anterior strong mar- 

 ginal bristles. Elytra also strongly trisetose laterally. Abdomen only 

 slightly swollen and widened, scarcely one and one-half times as wide as 

 the prothorax. Broadly margined above on the sides and very strongly 

 but sparsely setose, composed of seven segments. The abdomen has a 

 tendency to be elevated as in the female, although not nearly to so great 

 an extent. Elytra fuscous on apical half, and first ventral segment not 

 maculate, 



Described from one female and two male specimens collected 

 in the nests of Eutcrmcs cinereus Buckley, at Austin, Texas. 



As may be gleaned from the description, this form is quite 

 different from the Panama Termitog aster insolcns Casey, but I 

 have refrained from establishing another genus for its recep- 

 tion. The two sexes are seen to differ, especially in the struc- 

 ture of the mouth-parts and form of the abdomen ; but as they 

 are the only Termitophilous Staphylinidae common in the nests 

 of Eutermes at Austin, I think they must undoubtedly be the 

 sexes of a single species. The mouth parts of the female are 

 probably modified to conform with the method the Termites 

 have of feeding one another upon regurgitated food, a share 

 of which the Termitogaster doubtless begs from its hosts. 



The Genus Phyllonotus. 



I have received a communication from Prof. Theo. D. A. 

 Cockerell in which he calls my attention to the fact that the 

 name Phyllonotus is preoccupied. Swainson (according to 

 Scudder's Nomenclator Zoologicus, p. 246) gave the name to 

 a genus of mollusca, consequently my use of the term as ap- 

 plied to a genus of Tettigidse, in my recent monograph ' ' The 

 Tettigidse of North America," p. 45, necessitates a substitu- 

 tion. The name Pliyllotcfti.v is here proposed in the place of 

 Phyllonotus. J. L,. HANCOCK. 



