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arranged along the ventral plate, which is wide with the side straight and strongly- 

 converging. Pairs of feet of male 43, last moderately thickened, pilose and armed ; 

 female 45, last rather slender, less pilose than male, armed. 



I..ength of body 18.5 — 21.5 mm.; width .7—1 mm. 



Hab. — Salem, Indiana. 

 I have examined a male and a female. 



Subgenus ARCHILITHOBIUS. 



Lithobius holzingeri sp. nov. 



Chestnut brown, head dark, antenna; and feet paler. Robust, smooth, sparsely 

 pilose ; head subrotund ; somewhat wider than long. Antennre moderately long, 

 joints 20 — 28, long. Ocelli 15 — 20, arranged in 5 or 6 scies. Prosternal teeth 4. 

 Coxal pores 3, 4, 7, 3 — 5, 6, 1,5, somewhat transverse, large. Spines of first pair 

 of feet 2, 3, 2 ; penultimate 3, 3, 2 ; last I, 3, 2, O— I, 3, 3, 6. Posterior pair ot feet 

 moderate, in the male the fifth joint is produced on the inner side into a short blunt 

 pilose lobe. Claw of tlie female genitalia short, wide, tripartite: spines short and 

 stout, subequal. 



Length of male 16 — 21 mm.; female 12 — 18 mm. 



Hab. — Winona, Minnesota. 



This species is related to irilobus, but is distinguished from il by the 

 •greater number of antennial joints, coxal pores and the larger size. It is 

 described from three males and nine females ; I have named it in honor 

 of its collector, JMr. J. M. Holzinger. 



An Entomological Curiosity. • 

 By O. Lugger. 



Once upon a time — about the year 1866 — I formed the acquaintance 

 of a rather peculiar entomologist, in the city of Detroit, Mich. This col- 

 lector, an Irish-man, had become aquainted with Mr. Andrews of Brook- 

 lyn, who at that time was very anxious to bind together all American 

 entomologists with a silken bond spun by the oak-feeding Yamai mm. 

 Mr. Andrews' success was only limited, but Mr. O'M. proved himself 

 otherwise. He was an unmarried man, a painter b\- trade, and was living 

 in a small house in the suburbs of Detroit. This house consisted of two 

 rooms and a garret, that is to say, it was intended to consist of these 

 apartments ; they were never finished. Behind the house was a rather 

 large garden, to furnish him and his mother who kept house (?) for him, 

 all the necessary vegetable food, if — our friend had not found another use 

 for this garden. All kinds of plants that would furnish food for caterpil- 

 lars were there found in dense profusion, but nary a potato, tho' this fruit 

 and the imported delicacy, salt-herring, were about the only food ever 

 consumed inside the house ; however, an occasional loaf of bread brought 

 variety into this bill of fare. 



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