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able blood, but got to hut as my brother returned. Didn't 

 have much pain but flowing of blood from rectum made me 

 uneas}^ for fear of internal puncture, so thought best to keep 

 on down to Bath before I got any worse. Walked along slowly 

 and caught on way a female Aganisthos orion, so you can see 

 " ruling passion strong in death," etc. Got to Bath, had chill 

 and fever ; young doctor came in and examined me ; found I 

 was badly lacerated, but nothing worse. I stayed in bed two 

 days, but thoughts of those homeriis pulled me out, and on July 

 19th back we went. Got that day only two, one a wretched 

 female so battered that we did not keep her. I was too sore to 

 run and my brother did all the work. The 20th we got seven, 

 making 44 in all, one female among them, a total wreck, but I 

 brought her along. That night I was awake all nig^ht, fever 

 and great pain, and my wound discharging pus copiously ; too 

 much exertion I think. Anyhow, thought I had better leave 

 at once ; left at daybreak ; drove that day 38 miles to Port 

 Antonio and left next afternoon on steamer, reaching New 

 York July 23. A doctor on the steamer fixed me up with car- 

 bolic wash, quinine, etc., so I was all right on landing, but 

 pretty weak for some days. 



The Seventeenth American Kermes (Coccidae). 



By Georgk B. King, I^awrence, Mass. 



Kermes arizonensis N. sp.— Dead dry adult females globular variable 

 in size, transverse diameter 3 and 5 mm. Color grayish white, distinctly 

 marbled with a light yellow or reddish brown, and having four prominent 

 linear transverse dark brown bands, somewhat wavy, due to quite large 

 pits at intervals ; surface not shiny ; speckled with minute black dots. 

 Dead dry half-grown individuals, dark red brown Antennae apparently 

 only 5-jointed ; joints i (20), 2 (20), 3 (40), 4 (20), 5 (32) ^ long. Derm 

 colorless. Rostral loop stout dark brown. Mentum small, no legs or 

 other structural characters found. 



Hab. — On oak at Prescott, Arizona, collected by Prof. T. D. 

 A. Cockerell, March, 1902. (The species has gone as Kermes 

 galliformis but has only been superficially compared. Ckll. in 

 litt. ) It is, however, quite distinct from K. galliformis. In 

 some of its markings it resembles K. cueroeiisis Ckll. described 



