OF THE UNITED STATES. ill 



I have not known this species to inhabit so far 

 north as Pennsylvania. 



genus CRYPTOPS. Leach. 



Anterior edge of the labium not denticulated, hard- 

 ly emarginate; eyes obsolete; posterior pair of feet 

 longest, basal joint unarmed. 



Species. 1. C. *hyalina. Body much depressed, 

 white, with a double blackish internal line; hind feet, 

 with the third joint five toothed. 



Inhabits Georgia and East Florida. 



My Cabinet. 



Head reddish-brown polished, impunctured, with 

 scattered hairs, no impressed clypeal line; antennce 

 reddish-brown hirsute, joints sessile, cylindric, termi- 

 nal ones rounded; body white, polished, two black in- 

 ternal lines, a few sparse hairs, impunctured ; feet 

 with a few hairs; posterior feet reddish-brown, first 

 joint not so long as double its breadth, and, with the 

 second joint, armed with numerous short rigid setae, 

 with an indented line above, third joint four or five 

 toothed within, fourth joint about two toothed. 



Length three-fifths of an inch. 



Numerous specimens of this species occurred be- 

 neath the bark of a decaying Live Oak (Q. virens) 

 on the river St. John, East Florida. The appear- 

 ance of the posterior feet approximates it to Scolopen- 



