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my studies I have benefited greatly from advice and assistance 

 from various of my office associates. At an opportune moment, 

 just as I was studying the Hubbard material, there came to hand 

 an additional lot of six specimens taken but a month previous by 

 Mr. Snyder. This accession of fresh material proved of great 

 value. 



It was in 1895 that this insect was first discovered, Mr. Hub- 

 bard collecting material at Haw Creek, Florida, in March of that 

 year. Specimens were taken in termite galleries in a decayed 

 log, and field notes were made on their appearance and habits. 

 Except for an extract published by T. E. Snyder, Bull. Bur. Ent., 

 tl. S. Dept. Agric, No. 94, part H, p. 71 (1915), these notes are 

 still in manuscript. Deeming them well worth printing I here 

 quote them in full: 



''Termitophilous insects Haw Creek, Fla., March 4, 1895, 

 (Trichopsenus? and a Thysanuran near 'Campodea imitating a 

 young termite) found in galleries of Termes flavipes, small var., 

 living in large, red rotten log in palmetto hammock. ' The 

 Campodea lives in galleries not among the termites but in their 

 immediate vicinity. It can only be distinguished from the im- 

 mature termite by its longer legs and greater activity. It is very 

 difficult to capture. I saw several, got only one in small vial of 

 alcohol. 



'''March 26 from same log I took numerous specimens of the 

 Thysanuron, but lost one vial and saved only a few specimens, 

 one of which is mounted on a point, the rest in alcohol tube. 



"May 16. I mounted in balsam on a slide two specimens, 

 one on its back and one on its belly. The balsam clouded con- 

 siderably." 



The Trichopenus? mentioned in the above quoted notes is a 

 Staphylinid beetle. 



Some time later, the exact date not known and of little im- 

 portance, the above notes were rewritten by Mr. Hubbard in 

 a more permanent form and show a change of opinion as to the 

 probable identity of the species concerned. This recasted note 

 is here copied in full: 



"247 Termitophilous Psocid found with termites in large log 

 in pine swampy hammock of Prairie Farm, Haw Creek, Fla., 



