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Chelisochinae. 



ll..Chelisoches morio (Fabricius). 

 1775- F[orficula] morio Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 270. [Tahiti.] 

 1907. Chelisoches morio Caudell, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XV, p. 169. 



[Menlo Park, California.] (First United States record.) 



California: Alameda County, (R. Hunt; on bananas from Hawaii), 

 1$, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Though the specimen here recorded is adventive, the spe- 

 cies has become estabhshed at Menlo Park, California. It is 

 widely distributed through the Papuan and Indo-Malaysian 

 regions. 



FORFICULIDAE. 



FORFICULINAE. 



12. Doru lineare (Eschscholtz). 



1827. Forficula linearis Esclischoltz, Entomogr., p. 81. [Santa Cath- 

 arina, Brazil.] 



1865. F[orficula\ californica Dohrn, Stett. Ent. Zeit., XXVI, p. 85. 

 [California.] (First United States record.) 



1876. Forficula tacniata Scudder, Bull. U. S. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., 

 n, p. 255. [Exotic localities; Arizona; Texas.] 



1876. Forficula exilis Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVHI, 

 p. 262. [Texas.] 



1900. All these specific names referred to Apterygida by Bormans. 

 Das Tierreich, II, pp. no and in. 



1911. Doru exile Burr, Gen. Ins., Ease. 122, Dermapt., p. 79. [Ex- 

 otic; southern United States.] 



1911. Doru lineare Burr, (in part), ibid., p. 79. [Exotic; Southern ■ 

 United States.] 



1914. Doru lineare Rehn and Hebard, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XXII. 

 p. 90, figs. I to 4. (Synonymy; general diagnosis; records.) 



Arizona: San Xavier, Pima Coimty, VII, 24, 1916; (Lutz & Rehn; 

 attracted to light). 1$, [A. M. N. H.] ; Palo Alto Rancho, Altar 

 Valley, about 3000 feet, X, 10, 1910, (M. Hebard; moderate numbers 

 in bunches of coarse green grass, in meadow near wash), 85, 3?, 

 [Hebard Cln. and A. N. S. P.] ; Sycamore Cafion, Baboquivari Moun- 

 tains, about 3700 feet, X, 6, 1910, (Rehn and Hebard; attracted to 

 light), I 5, [Hebard Cln. and A. N. S. P.]. 



The insect is usually found in rank grasses. It frequently 

 appears at night at light. 



In the United States, the species is known only from about 

 Brownsville, Texas, generally over the Tucson region in 



