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which would suggest Seira. There are scales and also long hairs 

 covering the body ; this would exclude it from Entomobrya. 



The fourth segment of the body, however, is not much longer 

 than the third and is more like an Isotoma. 



We present a drawing, fig. 5, made by L. H. Homer, of the 

 Junior Class, University of Maine, which shows the form. We 

 will loan the slide to anyone who may care to see the specimen. 



Achorutes tigrina n. sp. 



The ground color straw yellow mottled with patches of deep brown ;. 

 the sutures show the ground color and give a transversely banded appear- 

 ance ; the dark markings on the dorsum arranged in three interrupted 

 longitudinal bands, one median and the others lateral, alternating with 

 the ground color ; these longitudinal stripes show more plainly on the 

 middle of the body, where each segment bears about three blotches in 

 each band. Body quite slender for the genus, covered with minute tuber- 

 cles ; armed with stout curved hairs ; there are from one to two very long 

 hairs on the lateral prominences of each segment and also several short 

 ones. The terminal segment without anal spines but armed with several 

 very long curved hairs. Antenna? stout, clothed with hairs, gradually taper- 

 ing, terminal joint about as long as the two preceeding ones, obtuse at the 

 end. Eye patches prominent, situated directly behind the antennae in the 

 middle of each lateral half of the head, ocelli eight on each side of the 

 head. Legs stout ; upper claw large and broad at the base for the length ; 

 a single small tooth on the inner margin about one-third from the end. 

 Inferior claw very slender, about two-thirds as long as the superior, end- 

 hig in a slender point ; tenent hair single, stout, fully twice as long as the 

 superior claw and slightly bulbous at the end ; furcula short and stout. 



Described from eight specimens found on bark in the woods 

 at Poronal, Me., May, 1899, by O. O. Stover, of the Senior Class 

 of the University of Maine. 



Characterized by the slender form, absence of anal spines, 

 peculiar color pattern, tubercled body, long hairs on the body, 

 structure of the claws and the furcula. 



Remarks. So far as we know an Achorutes without anal 

 spines has not been described from the United States. The 

 figure shows the form too broad for the length, because of flat- 

 tening in mounting. The outlines were made with a camera 

 lucida. No attempt is made to show the peculiar mottled and 

 striped appearance, but only the location of the long hairs. 



Isotoma - - n. sp. ? 



White throughout, clothed with long, straight, pointed hairs ; apparently 

 blind, at least no eye patches ; body elongated, giving one the impression 



