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United States, but the western species is rare. A Silphid inquiline 

 (Platycholeus lejytinoides Crotch) has been found in the nests of Termop- 

 sis nevadensis Hagen in Cahfornia and Oregon. 



In the eastern United States both Staphyhnid and Pselaphid beetles 

 occur in colonies of the species of Reticulitermes. Trichopsenius 

 depressus LeConte and Microcyptus testaceus LeConte were found by 

 H. G. Hubbard living together with R. jlavipes KoUar in Florida; 

 the former species of beetle was found by the writer with, jlavipes in a 

 chestnut telephone pole near Bloomingdale, in the vicinity of Savan- 

 nah, Georgia, on October 26, 1915; and in November, 1917, again 

 in a chestnut telephone pole near Savannah by E. B, Griffen, of the 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Tricliopsenius de- 

 pressus, so far as is known, has only been found associated with repro- 

 ductive forms of termites. Hubbard found this beetle with second 

 form reproductive types near Crescent City, Florida, April 20, 1882. 

 The writer's specimens were found with 5 females and 7 males of the 

 second form, and Griff en's specimens were found with a large queen 

 of the first form. 



Staphylinid beetles of the genus Philotermes also occur with species 

 of Reticulitermes; the species P. pilosus Kraatz, pennsylvanicus Kraatz, 

 and fuchsii Kraatz all have been found in colonies oi jlavipes in eastern 

 United States. TacTiyporus jocosus Say and Homalota, species are 

 recorded from colonies oi jlavipes by King (1897). 



Of the Pselapliidae, TmesipJiorus carinatus Say was found by the 

 writer in Virginia with R. jlavipes and Batrisus^ virginiae Casey with 

 colonies of R. virginicus Banks. 



The Scarabaeid beetles Homovalgus squamiger Beauvois and Valgus 

 canaliculatus Fabricius are commonly foimd associated with species 

 of Reticulitermes in eastern United States. 



H. G. Hubbard found insects thought to be peculiar wingless 

 psocids, which resemble young termites, in a colony of R. jlavipes near 

 Haw Creek, Florida, on March 26, 1895. On April 10, 1918, the 

 writer found a colony of ProrTiinotermes simplex Hagen in a decayed 

 red mangrove log in a swamp along Biscayne Bay opposite Miami, 

 Florida. In this colony numerous white, very active insects, some- 

 what resembling young termites were found; they were thought to 

 be the same as the "wingless psocids" previously found by Hubbard 

 (Snyder, 1915). These insects were found in several other colonies 

 of this termite, were fairly common, and were also in portions of the 

 logs where termites were not present. They have proven to be a new 

 species of Zorotypus, namely huhhardi, (Caudell, 1918) in Silvestri's 

 new order Zoraptera (SUvestri, 1913). 



A Nitidulid beetle, AmpJiotis ullcei LeConte, was found by the 

 writer in a colony of termites (R. jlavipes) on July 9, 1918, at Falls 

 Church, Virginia. This beetle has been found in colonies of ants and 



> Now Batrisodes. 



