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encircled with brown fuscous. The row of spots parallel to the 

 outer margin is made to continue in its sub-marginal course by 

 the addition of two spots placed parallel to the costal margin. 

 Beneath the discal spot and towards the abdominal margin there 

 is another somewhat smaller. 



Body and thorax above and below concolorous with the wings; 

 head above the same, below much brighter. Antennae annulated 

 with black and the general color, brighter at base of tip, then 

 black, and finally ending in a long tapering tip of the general 

 color. 



Habitat. — Mexican boundary of Texas; Mexico; Central Am. : 

 Brazil (?). The locality was unknown when the insect was figured 

 by Westwood. 



Notes and. Nevv^s. 



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Abcanthia Papistrilla in Nests of the Barn Swallow. — While 

 workmen were nailing some brackets beneath the eaves of the college 

 bam in the latter part of last August preparatory to putting up new eave- 

 troughs, they complained of receiving a shower of bed-bugs whenever 

 they pounded on the bam. The fact was reported to me and I imme- 

 diately went, bottle in hand, to get a supply of the bugs. 



A large flock of swallows had lived about the barn all summer and 

 reared their young and had recently deserted the place . The eaves were 

 completely lined with their mud nests between the ends of the rafters. 

 Upon e.xamining these nests I found them to be literally alive with crawling 

 vermin somewhat resembling bed-bugs, but much smaller, more hairy, and 

 having a grayish pilose appearance instead of the naked brick-red appear- 

 ance of the article that I had always ^een. The outside of the nests were 

 in many places gray in color from the accumulation of their white egg- 

 shells. The largest of the bugs found in the nests measured but 9-64 of 

 an inch in length, while full grown specimens oi A. lectularia in my col- 

 lection measure fully X of an inch^ I am indebted to Mr. Ashmead, of 

 the Division of Entomology at Washington,' for the identification of the 

 species. Mr. Ashmead tells me that he does not think that this species 

 has ever before been reported in this country. It is a common species in 



