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Both sexes are completely apterous when adult, and nearly black; 
the young are grayish or dusky, and very active. 
Anisolabis antennata Wirby, sp. nov., was described from Ber- 
muda, Journ. Linn, Soc , xxiii, p. 517, 1891. 
' 0.—Thysanura. 
Silver-witch ; Slicker ; Shiner. (Lepisma saccharina UL.) 
FIGURE 204. 
Found in houses and outbuildings, often among books and papers. 
Widely distributed in most countries. Probably Lepisma, or Ther- 
202 
Figure 202.—Great HEarwig (Labidura riparia); x1%; after Claus. Figure 
204.—Silver Witch (Lepisma saccharina); x 2; after Packard. 
mobia, domestica Pack.) would be found in bakeries and kitchens if 
looked for. 
looked for them here. They are now, July, 1902, very abundant, though the 
past winter has been of such unusual severity that most of the native cock- 
roaches, usually very abundant under the decaying debris along the beaches, 
were nearly all exterminated, while the earwigs, of all sizes and in great num- 
bers, are to be found in the same places. On recently visiting other islands of 
the group to look for the species, I have found it equally abundant on several 
of them and on the adjacent mainland, thus indicating that it was introduced 
at some earlier period. 
