326 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



Hab. In stored celery in the cellar during February, March 

 and April, 1894, Orono, Me., F. L. Harvey. 



Associated with species mentioned in a previous article in the 

 NEWS as found in celery. 



Remarks. A fragile, sluggish species. Walks with a slow, 

 clumsy, awkward gait. The body is so narrow and deep and the 

 legs so long, there is a tendency to tottle over on the side. Does 

 not jump much unless disturbed; feigns death, drawing the head 

 under the mesonotum and remaining a long time apparently dead. 

 We examined specimens without cover-glass and some died with- 

 out a struggle. The damp, dark cellar may have caused a sensi- 

 tiveness unnatural to them out-of-doors. 



The dorsal and side views were made by Mr. Emerton from 

 live specimens. Those of the mucrone and claw by the writer. 



Relationship. This species resembles, in form, Lubbock's fig. 

 of L. curvicollis Bourlet (Collembola, pi. 25), but the mesonotum 

 is not so pointed in front, but deeper and more straight along the 

 lower border. We have not been able to see the prothorax so 

 conspicuously figured by Lubbock. The coloring is very differ- 

 ent. Our specimens have the head and antennae conspicuously 

 darker than the remainder of the body and purple. The last 

 joint of the antennae is conspicuously longer than the third seg- 

 ment. Lubbock gives 2 mm. as the size of L. curvicollis, while 

 out of two dozen'specimens none equaled that size. The coloring 

 of the legs is different. 



Distinguishing characters. Purple head and antennae and 

 darker eye patches, terminal joint of antennae longer than third, 

 elevated front of the body and projecting mesonotum deep and 

 rounded in front; oblique setting of the head half concealed 

 under the mesonotum. Long, slender spring, transparent and 

 curved near the end, bearing dilated crenules on the lower edge 

 and scattered bristles toward the end. 



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Notes on a remarkable " interfaunal" Hybrid of Smerinthus. 



By B. NEUMOEGEN, New York. 

 Smerinthus hybr. Interfannus Neum. 



I have before me a dozen examples of this remarkable hybrid, 

 all alike in appearance, and produced not by artificial means, 

 but in free nature. Mr. Gustav Rix, of this city, imports every 



