52 
Psyche 
[June-September 
I ucson (id", 29, i nymph); Arizona State University, Tempe 
( 1 cT ) ; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. Mass. ( 1 d 1 , 
i?) ; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif, (id); 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1$) ; British Museum 
(N. H.) , London, England ( i?) . 
1 he paratypes are from the following localities : 
NEW MEXICO: Virden, Hidalgo Co., one male, Aug. 27, 1958. 
light trap, G. L. Nielsen. 
ARIZONA: Tempe, one male, Nov. 22, 1955, Jones; Tucson, 
Pima Co., one male and three nymphs, Dec. 4, 1924, C. T. Vorhies; 
one female, Nov. 7, 1939, Wayne Enloe; two females, Dec. 29, 
1939, Tom Embleton ; Sabino Canyon, Sta. Catalina Mts., Pima 
Co., one male, July 25, 1955, at light, G. D. Butler and F. G. 
Werner; 2 mi. sw. Patagonia (4050 ft., Sonoita Creek bottom, 
willow-cottonwood), Sta. Cruz Co., one male, Aug. 21, 1949, 
F. H. Parker. 
MEXICO: SINALOA, “Venodio”, one female, 1918, Kusche; 
BAJA CALIFORNIA, 25 mi. w. La Paz (ca. 500-foot plateau, 
relatively rich shrubby vegetation), one female, light trap, Aug. 30, 
1959, K. W. Radford and F. G. Werner; 10 mi. sw. San Jose 
del Cabo (100 yd. from ocean in sandy wash, sparse shrubs), one 
female, light trap, Sept. 1, 1959, K. W. Radford and F. G. Werner. 
Aside from the few notes appended to the above localities, there is 
no information of any sort available on this apparently rare earwig. 
Morgan Hebard (1923, and other papers) described many Orthop- 
tera collected by J. A. Kusche in Sinaloa, at “Venvidio”, which 
probably is our “Venodio. ” Workers have been unable to locate 
either locality since, and Irving J. Cantrall, of the University of 
Michigan, has written us of having prepared a manuscript dealing 
with the Kusche locality. Thanks to Dr. Cantrall’s cooperation, we 
are able to report that Venadillo apparently is the correct name. This 
small town is 5 miles northeast of Mazatlan on Mexican Highway 
15, which goes to Culiacan. 
Literature Cited 
Gurney, A. B. 
1950. An African earwig new to the United States, and a corrected list of 
the Nearctic Dermaptera. Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington 52: 200-203. 
1959. New records of Orthoptera and Dermaptera from the United 
States. Fla. Ent. 42: 75-80. 
Hebard, M. 
1922. Dermaptera and Orthoptera from the State of Sinaloa, Mexico, 
Part I. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 48: 157-196. 
Hincks, W. D. 
1954. Notes on Dermaptera, I. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. Lond. (B), 23: 159-163. 
1960. Notes on Dermaptera, IV. Ibid. 29: 155-159. 
