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posed of seven segments, somewhat concave above and widely margined 

 along the sides. Each segment somewhat dentate and bearing a short 

 spine at the posterior angles. More or less clothed with short stiff hairs 

 which become more delicate apically. Legs very short, tarsi 5-jointed, 

 joints about equal on the four anterior feet, posterior pair with first joint 

 the longest. 



Length 3 mm. Head, thorax, two or three apical segments of abdo- 

 men, elytra, legs and venter reddish fuscous. Abdomen piceous. An- 

 tennae fuscous. Body opaque, except the abdomen, which is shining and 

 sparsely punctured. The hairs on the head, thorax and abdomen sparse, 

 brassy on head and thorax, yellowish on abdomen. 



Described from numerous individuals collected at Austin, 

 Texas, in a nest of Eciton schmitti Emery. 



The hairs upon the head and thorax are similar to the com- 

 plex hairs seen on Ulkeus intricatns Horn, another Eciton Myr- 

 mecophile. In this case each hair is composed of about four 

 slender barbs, which are separate to the base, where they unite. 



TERMITOGASTER Casey. 



Up to the present time there seem to have been no truly 

 Physogastric Termitophilous Staphylinids discovered in North 

 America. Such species have been found in other parts of the 

 world, and since the first discovery of Corotoca and Spirachtha 

 by Schioedte in 1854 their number has increased considerably, 

 until at the present time some fourteen or fifteen genera are 

 recognized from various parts of the world. All of them seem 

 to occur only in the nests of various species of termites. In 

 1889 Casey described Termitog aster insolcns* from Panama, 

 but all the remaining genera are represented by forms from 

 Madagascar, Africa and South America. The new form there- 

 fore adds considerably to the range of such genera, and it is 

 interesting to note in this connection that the species of Ter- 

 mite, with which it lives (Eutermcs cincreus Buckley), is a 

 truly tropical form occurring at Cuernavaca, Mexico, from 

 which locality I have also seen specimens. 



Eutermes is rather rare at Austin, as we have seen only 

 three or four nests of it during the several years which we 

 have spent in this region. In two of these nests specimens of 

 the new Termitophile were found. It resembles the queen of 



* Annals of the N. Y. Acacl. of Sci., vol. iv, p. 384. 



