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able blood, but got to hut as my brother returned. Didn't 

 have much pain but flowing of blood from rectum made me 

 uneasy for fear of internal puncture, so thought best to keep 

 on down to Bath before I got any worse. Walked along slowly 

 and caught on way a female Aganisthos or ion, so you can see 

 " ruling passion strong in death," etc. Got to Bath, had chill 

 and fever ; young doctor came in and examined me ; found I 

 was badly lacerated, but nothing worse. I stayed in bed two 

 days, but thoughts of those howerus pulled me out, and on July 

 i gth back we went. Got that day only two, one a wretched 

 female so battered that we did not keep her. I was too sore to 

 run and my brother did all the work. The 2oth we got seven, 

 making 44 in all, one female among them, a total wreck, but I 

 brought her along. That night I was awake all night, fever 

 and great pain, and my wound discharging pus copiously ; too 

 much exertion I think. Anyhow, thought I had better leave 

 at once ; left at daybreak ; drove that day 38 miles to Port 

 Antonio and left next afternoon on steamer, reaching New 

 York July 23. A doctor on the steamer fixed me up with car- 

 bolic wash, quinine, etc., so I was all right on landing, but 

 pretty weak for some days. 



The Seventeenth American Kermes (Coccidae). 



Bv GEORGE B. KING, L,awrence, Mass. 



Kermes arizonensis N. sp. Dead dry adult females globular variable 

 in size, transverse diameter 3 and 5 mm. Color grayish white, distinctly 

 marbled with a light yellow or reddish brown, and having four prominent 

 linear transverse dark brown bands, somewhat wavy, due to quite large 

 pits at intervals ; surface not shiny ; speckled with minute black dots. 

 Dead dry half-grown individuals, dark red brown Antennae apparently 

 only s-jointed ; joints i (20), 2 (20), 3 (40), 4 (20), 5 (32) f_i long. Derm 

 colorless. Rostral loop stout dark brown. Mentum small, no legs or 

 other structural characters found. 



Hab. On oak at Prescott, Arizona, collected by Prof. T. D. 

 A. Cockerell, March, 1902. (The species has gone as I\ 'crmc. v 

 galliformis but has only been superficially compared. Ckll. in 

 litt.) It is, however, quite distinct from K. galliformis. In 

 some of its markings it resembles K. cuera-nsis Ckll. described 



