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about the year 1869 or 1870. They would come out from behind the 

 range, and were observed in dry warm closets, but were not commonly 

 noticed in the upper cooler portions of the house, though at times 

 appearing about fireplaces. I kept specimens in confinement for some 

 time, offering them sugar (which, however, I am not sure they eat), 

 hoping to get some eggs for purposes of embryological study. 



I first called attention to it in an article in the American Natu- 

 ralist, entitled, " Bristle-tails and Spring-tails " (v, p. 94, April, 1871). 

 Referring to the four American species of Lepisma, I stated, " Besides 

 the common L. saccTiarina ?, there are three undescribed species, one 

 the heat-loving form, perhaps an imported species, found in a kitchen 

 in Salem, and apparently allied to L. thermo-pMla, Lucas, of houses in 

 Brest, France ; and two allied forms, one from Key West, and another 

 from Putvon, Nicaragua, collected by Mr. McNeil." These last three 

 species are beautifully ornamented with finely spinulated hairs, ar- 

 ranged in tufts on the head ; while the side of the body and edges of 

 the basal joints of the legs are fringed with them. As L. mucronata, 

 Pack., from Nicaragua, which closely resembles Thermophila, has 

 5- jointed maxillary palpi, it should be retained in Lepisma. 



The Salem species was afterwards described from both living and 

 alcoholic examples in the Fifth Annual Report of the Peabody Academy 

 of Science at Salem, Mass., July, 1873, p. 48, under the name Lepisma 

 domestica. I have not heard of its occurrence in any other locality 

 in this country. 



It seems to agree perfectly with Oudeman's figure and description 

 in Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 1889, p. 425, pi. 12, both in the shape 

 and the proportions of the joints of the maxillary palpi, and in the 

 colours and markings ; the dark bands and spots being the same. 



Providence, E. I., U. S. A. : 

 Mat/ Ua, 1894. 



SUPPLEMENT TO ANNOTATED LIST OF PETTISH TACEINIIDJE. 



BT E. H. MEADE. 



(Concluded from page 110). 



MTOBIA, Dsv. et End.* 



M. VETUSTA, Mgn. 



Erontal stripe black, -with forepart sometimes red ; sides of frontalia and face 



white or luteous, with dark reflections ; antennae black, with second joint rufous at 



the apex, and about half the length of the third; arista long, slender, . slightly 



pubescent, and a little thickened at the base ; palpi piceous or black ; thorax cine- 



* The additional species which I now introduce belongs to Eondnni's genus or sub-genus 

 Myobia, all the other British species that I have seen are comprised in his sub-genus Pyrrosia. 



