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Periplaneta americana (Linn.) Bnrm. i d, 3 ?, and young, 

 from houses at Fort Reed, March, April and May. 



Periplaneta australasiae (Fabr.) Burm. Several young of 

 this species were taken at Ft. Reed during March, April and May. 

 This cosmopolitan species was first sent to me from Green Cove 

 Spring, Florida, by Mrs. Mary Treat, under the name of " the Flor- 

 ida cockroach," and she reports that it frequently occurs in the 

 pitchers of Sarracenia,^ and has been extremely abundant in Florida 

 for eighteen years, the torment of housekeepers. Yet it has never 

 before fallen into my hands, nor has it been hitherto recorded from 

 the United States. A single specimen in the collection of Dr. Har- 

 ris is marked " introduced; in ships from China." 



F0RFICULARI.E. 



Labidura riparia (Pall.) Dohrn. A single specimen taken at 

 Ft. Reed, April 24. Taken at Indian River, by Messrs. Hubbard 

 and Schwarz, April 27; at Appalacliicola, by Mr. Thaxter. 



Labia guttata Scudd. One specimen taken at Ft. Reed, 

 March 26. 



Note on the Wing of a Cockroach from the Carbonife- 

 rous FORMATION OF PiTTSTON, PeNN. 



It lies on a piece of black carbonaceous shale, and was found in 

 the interconglomerate beds, or at not far from the same level as the 

 fossil cockroach described by Les(|uereux from Frog Bayou, Arkan- 

 sas. It is a nearly perfect upper wing, an insignificant portion ot 



1 See Harper's Magazine for October, 187G. 



