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slightly swollen, tibise much flattened, the anterior and middle pairs folia- 

 ceous ; tarsi fuscous ; claws brown. 



Type: Female. 



Measurements: Length from head to apex of tegmina 5.5 mm.; length 

 of pronotum from anterior apex to tip of posterior process 5 mm. ; width 

 between humeral angles 1.3 mm. 



Male very slightly smaller and more slender. Does not differ in color 

 or punctuation. Abdomen much more slender and pointed than in female. 



Locality: Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. 



Collector: R. J. Crew. 



Described from two females and three males. The specimens 

 bear no date labels. Type in author's collection, allotype and 

 three paratypes in collection of Mr. C. E. Olsen. 



A METHOD OF SHIPPING INSECT COLLECTIONS. 



By a. B. Champlain, Lyme, Conn. 



During the past eight years I have moved my collection of 

 Carabidse five or six times, in all about six thousand miles. It 

 has been handled by drayers and in freight warehouses, and 

 transferred several times en route when shipped for long dis- 

 tances. I have never had a specimen damaged. 



Barrels, ordinary sugar barrels obtainable from any grocer, are 

 my receptacles. My boxes are 9X13 inches, on the order of 

 Schmitt boxes. Each is wrapped separately with newspaper to 

 prevent the dust from working in. Eight or nine are placed, 

 one above another, on top of a cushion of excelsior. Excelsior is 

 packed securely around each, leaving no chance for the boxes to 

 touch the edges of the barrel. A cushion of several inches of 

 excelsior comes on the top. A piece of burlap, tacked over the 

 top, completes the job. 



The whole article is light, easy to handle, and the safest I know 

 anything of. 



