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heavier and shorter in proportion to the body bulk, and femora 
with dark markings occupying nearly their entire cephalic and 
caudal faces. ^ 
The pale segments of the antennae are variable, in number and 
location, in the species of the genus; in the present series one 
specimen has the eleventh and twelfth on one side and the thir- 
teenth on the other pale, the others have the fourteenth or four- 
teenth and base of fifteenth pale. 
Labidura bidens (Olivier) 
1791. Forficula bidens Olivier, Encycl. Method., Ins., vi, p. 466. [Jamaica.] 
Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz, Mexico, I, 1892, (L. Bruner), 1 cf, 1 9- 
Labiidae 
SPONGIPHORINAE 
Sponglphora proliza Scudder 
1862. Psalidophora paralella Dohrn (not Forficula paralella Westwood, 1837), 
Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiii, p. 227, pi. I, figs. 3 and 3b. [Cordoba [Vera Cruz, 
Mexico].] 
1876. Spongiphora prolixa Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xviii, p. 
331. (New name for Dohrn’s species.) 
San Rafael, Vera Cruz, Mexico, I, 1892, (L. Bruner), 2 9 . 
It is a pleasure to record almost topotypic material of this 
large and striking insect, the only species of Spongiphora, s. s. 
found so far north on the North American continent. 
Spongovostox apicedentatus (Caudell) 
1905. Spongophora apicedentata Caudell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxviii, p. 
461, fig. la. [Columbia, Texas; Catalina Springs, Tucson and Fort Yuma, 
Arizona; Los Angeles and San Diego Coimties, California.] 
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico, (E. A. Schwartz), 
1 cf; XII, 1, 1909, (F. C. Bishopp; under Opuntia), 1 cf, 1 9, 
1 juv., [all U. S. N. M.]. 
Prosparatta humllls Hebard 
1917. Prosparatta humUis Hebard, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xliii, p. 308, fig. 1, 
pi. XXVI, figs. 1 and 2. [Cabima, Panama; Lion HiU and Paraiso, Canal 
Zone, Panama.] 
State of Colima, Mexico, (L. Conradt), 1 cf , [U. S. N. M.]. 
This species closely resembles a depauperate condition of 
Vostox brunneipennis. The smaller eyes, not as long as the 
* Noted in the original description and by Bormans in Das Tierreich. 
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