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inhabit dry hot places among leaves, under stones, debris, caves, buildings,
and the nests of ants and termites. Those in buildings are chiefly nocturnal.
They feed upon dry vegetation or plant products and those in houses are fond
of paste and glue, to secure which they often injure pasteboard boxes Or bookbindings.
They are also fond of starched goods and rayon cloth. The silver
fish moth, Lepisma saccharina Linnreus, is now almost cosmopolitan in distribution,
being known in North America, Europe, China, Japan, and the
Hawaiian Islands. The fire brat, Tkermobt'a domesUca (Packard), commonly
occurs in buildings in this country and in Europe, New Zealand, and elsewhere.
These domesticated species appear at night and especially frequent basements,
kitchens, and warm places. The fire brat favors the warm or hot bricks about
fireplaces, chimneys, furnaces, and ovens and is distinguished by its mottled
gray color whereas the former species is of a uniform silver-gray or brownish
color. Ctenolepisma longicaudata Escherich, a native of Souih Africa, has also
been introduced into Australia and invades the houses there.
The members of t.he genus Nicoletia are devoid of body scales. They are
rather slender in form and tropical and subtropical in distribution, occurring
in South and Central America. They are tennitophilous in habits. The members
of the genus Atelura are almost heart-shaped, with very short antennre and
caudal appendages. They are quite commonly found in the nests of termites in
South America.
The insects of this family are collected in the same manner as the machilids.
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HILTON, W. A., "The Campodea of California," jour. Ent. and Zool. 24: 47-51, 1 fig.,
1932.
MAcGILLIVRAY, A. D., "North American Thysanura," Canadian Ent. 25: 173-174,
218-220, 1893.
PACKARD, A. S., "Synopsis of the Thysanura of Essex County, MasEiachusetts," Rept
Peabody Acad. Arts and Sci. 6: 23, 1873.
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Scuola Agr. Portici 6: 1-15, 1905.
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