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5. Like the male except that it is a few shades darker in color and 

 lacks the chalky scales of the male, these being a secondary sexual 

 character. 



Male type and allotype in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Paratypes in the collection 

 of the author. Specimens were taken June lo and 26, 1914. 



Habitat. — West and southwest of Guantanamo, Cuba. 



The species was not uncommon about Guantanamo City and 

 it seems strange that Gundlach, who worked this district over 

 very critically, did not find it. I have never seen it in the 

 higher altitudes. I have taken it from April 14 (earliest) to 

 September 18 (latest record), but it is most abundant during 

 late summer. I have dedicated this species to my wife, who 

 has accompanied me in my collecting trips. I compared this 

 species at the British Museum, through the kindness of Messrs. 

 Richard South and N. D. Riley, where I found something very 

 close to it from Venezuela, which was still unnamed. If this 

 should happen to be the Venezuelan form, it could be accounted 

 for as having been brought over in the chrysalis ; it might 

 have emerged while the ship was unloading in port, and finding 

 congenial surroundings and food plant, the species established 

 itself firmly about Guantanamo. This could have happened 

 at the end of the Spanish-American war, when many ship- 

 loads of cattle were brought from Venezuela and Colombia to 

 Guantanamo, and this may also account for the fact that Gund- 

 lach did not see the species. 



The Cimex on American Bats (Hemip., Heter.). 



In reference to Mr. John T. Zimmer's remarks in Entomological 

 News for November last, page 418, his note reveals what I have sus- 

 pected — that according to the then state of our knowledge, a certain 

 bug on a bat was determined as Cimex pipistrelli Jen. Horvath (Ann. 

 Mus. Nat. Hung. X, pp. 257-262) cites the species found on American 

 bats, which he had described in Ent. Mo. Mag. (2) XXI : 12, fig., in 

 1910, under the name Cimex pilosellus, giving Vespcrugo noctivagus 

 as one of the hosts. This is in all likelihood the species Mr. Zimmer 

 has reference to. 



I shall later refer to the other forms mentioned in my previous 

 note. — J. R. DE LA Torre Bueno. 



