Our purpose in this paper is to call attention to a complication of scabies consisting of the occurrence and persistence, after thorough treatment, of pruritic pea-sized nodular lesions. These persistent nodules occurred in five cases of scabies which we have observed during the past year and a half. The lesions have varied from the size of a small to that of a large pea, have been red or brownish red, and have always been definitely infiltrated, and where the skin was loose as on the penis, they could easily be picked up between two fingers. In all cases they were intensely pruritic. Many of the penile lesions showed a definite central depression, and in several cases they seemed to subside only to recur in the same and other locations. With the following exceptions, a careful search of the voluminous literature pertaining to scabies failed to reveal any mention of