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extended reaching beyond the body, the dentes furrowed below and 

 bearhig about ten, stout, long hairs on each margin. On the under surface 

 of the dentes, near the base of the mucrones, is a stout bristle which is 

 swollen in the basal half and extends to abbut three-fourths the length of 

 the mucrone. On the dorsal side near the base of the mucrones are a few 

 stout curved hairs. Mucrones oblong in outline with a median and dorsal 

 ridge, the under edge thin and without teeth. 

 Total length about i mm. 



Found in May under boards where it had hibernated. Orono, 

 May, 1898, F. L. Harvey. 



Remarks.— Th\^ species is related to S. arvalis Fitch and 

 S. Jitchii Folsom, but differs in the antennal subjoints as well 

 as in the claws. It has been called ^S". brunneus on account of 

 the broad brown band on the back. The figures are camera 

 lucida drawings made by the writer. 



Genus? sp.? (PI. xv, fig. 5). 



Descripiion. — White, washed with pale blue. Eye patches prominent, 

 black, connected by a narrow band. Eight ocelli on each side of the head. 

 Antennae apparently four jointed, pale blue throughout, darker than the 

 body, nearly twice as long as the head, very stout, ratio of the joints, 2 : 

 3:6:11. The terminal joint broad, about as long as the other three 

 together, annulated by about twelve rings, armed with short hairs. 



Claws large and stout for the size, without teeth, a single tenent hair 

 bulbous at the end. Elater and mucrones much as in Ternpletonia. 

 Length .6 mm. 



A small, stout, active species found in celery stored in the 

 cellar, Orono, Maine, January, 1890, F. L. Harvey. 



Remarks. — We have seen only two specimens of this remark- 

 able form. They were examined alive and finally one specimen 

 was preserved in balsam. We had hoped to find more, but have 

 not, and .so record our notes, thinking they will be interesting, 

 and vyait for more specimens before placing the species definitely. 



The ringed terminal joint of the antennae would suggest 7>w/>- 

 letonia, but as species of Tempietonia are now known without an- 

 nulated antennae, there is no rea.son why a species of some other 

 genus, ordinarily with plain antennae, may not have them ringed. 

 The four joints to the antennae we think would exclude this form 

 from Tempietonia. The prominent eye patches, eight ocelli and 

 their arrangement, and the presence of scales would suggest Le- 

 pidoeyrtits, but the mesonotum does not project over the head, 



