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Delaware: Delaware City, VII, 25, 1899, i $ , [M. C. Z.3. 



Virginia: Hot Springs, VII, 29, 1916, (M. Hebard; flying before 

 dusk), 1$, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Wisconsin: Sparta, VIII, 7, 1896, (J. E. McDade), 1$, 1$, [M. 

 C. Z.]. 



Manitoba: Aweme, IX, 11, 1909, (N. Criddle), 4 <J , [Hebard Cln. 

 and A. N. S. P.]. 



Nebraska: Lincoln, VIII and IX, 7 ^ , 8$, [Hebard Cln. and A. N. 

 S. P.]. 



California: Sonoma County, IV, 16, 1$, [Hebard Cln.]; Claremont, 

 (C. F. Baker), 2^ , [A. N. S. P.] 



The species is frequently encountered in flight at, or just 

 before, dusk. It is often numerous under debris about man- 

 ure. 



This minute insect, an adventive from Europe, has become 

 widely distributed in the United States. It is the only earwig 

 known from Canada, where it has been taken as far north as 

 Quebec, Quebec. There are no records of its occurrence 

 south of the Fall Line in the southeastern United States, 

 except at Unadilla, Georgia,* or from the Great Plains west to 

 the Californian Sierras. 



7. Labia rehni new species. 



1914. Labia minor Rehn and Hebard, (not Forficitia minor Lin- 

 naeus, 1758), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1914, p. 377. [Key West, 

 Florida.] 



Though very similar to Labia minor in general appearance, 

 the imique female of this interesting species before us, is 

 found to differ widely from females of that species, in the 

 much smaller eyes, more ample pronotum, much shorter teg- 

 mina and wings, distinctive pygidium and forceps with ven- 

 tro-internal margins not attingent, not perfectly straight and 

 armed with microscopic, blunt serrulations. 



Type: 9 ; Key West, Florida. July 7, 1912. (Rehn & 

 Hebard; under boards in store-house.) [Hebard Collec- 

 tion Type No. 439.] 



Size very small ; form moderately slender, very slightly more robust 

 than in L. minor. Head, pronotum, tegmina, wings, abdomen and 



^ The record by Rehn and Hebard from Key West, Florida, ap- 

 plies to Labia rehni. 



