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fornia, collected by Albert Keobele. The antennte of the males are 

 broken, but those of the female are intact and measure 14 mm. in 

 length and are 22 jointed. It would therefore appear that the antenna 

 of Dr. Scudder's specimens, at least those of the female, were broken. 



The trochanters of these insects are large and distinct, more so than 

 in any other of our I'hasmida^. The head is marked by a narrow post- 

 ocular stripe, which extends more or less distinctly across the entire 

 length of the pronotum. 



Besides these specimens from the Santa Cruz Mountains, the U. S. 

 National Museum contains a male and a female from Los Angeles County, 

 California, that may represent a new species, but their condition is too 

 poor to warrant their description as such without additional and bet- 

 ter preserved material. They differ from the typical specimens in 

 being proportionately^ shorter, head more flattened vertically, without 

 the postoculate black line, and, together with the pronotum in the male, 

 rugose above. The female cerci are more slender, and the meso- and 

 metathorax of both sexes seem less developed than in the specimens 

 from Santa Cruz Mountains. The male cerci also differ in being more 

 foliaceous. Plate LVIII, fig. 7", shows the male cerci of the specimen 

 from Los Angeles County, and Plate LVIII, tig. 7, the same of the 

 Santa Cruz Mountain specimens. 



This species apparently represents a step in the transition from the 

 Phasmidas to the Forficulidaj. The forcipal cerci of the males, ven- 

 trall}' attached legs, short, broad head, and especially the short, stout 

 legs with the three jointed tarsi, indicate a relation to the ear-wigs. 

 As Phasmids these creatures are certainly anomalies, and at a casual 

 glance are not always readily recognized, having, in one instance at 

 least, been mistaken for a species of Perlid larvae. 



NOTE. I 



Since this paper has been made up into pages, Mr. E. A. Sehwarz 

 collected a specimen of Phasmidte representing a species new to our 

 fauna. It was taken at Key West, Florida, on April 6, and, except 

 for the discordant factor of the median segment being slightly shorter 

 than the metathorax, seems to fall quite naturally into the Bacterid 

 genus IlaplopuH of Gray. As the specimen is an immature female, 

 any attempt at specific determination would be unsatisfactory. It may 

 eventually prove to be the Ilaplojrus cuhensis of Saussurc, but it does 

 not seem to agree very well with the description of that species. 



