110 SMYNTHURUS. 



on a black patcli; spring white. Abdomen with 

 a re-entering angle and scattered pale hairs. 



France, Kent, among grass. Common, May to July. 



Length, '035 of an inch. 



One mandible has five well-marked teeth ; the other 

 can hardly be said to have any at all. The feet much 

 resemble those of /S. luteus ; there are two tenent hairs 

 above, and one on the underside. The larger claw is 

 simple, the lesser one very small. The saltatory 

 appendage also (PI. LXIII, fig. 4) much resembles that 

 of S. luteus. 



Smyntliurus Bourletiiy Gervais. 



Smijnthurus Bourletii, Gervais. His. Ins. Apteres, ui. 



Plate V. 



Dark purple and yellow. The purple forms two 

 broad, irregular bands with broken edges running along 

 the side of the body ; there are two yellow patches on 

 the head between the black eye-patches, separated by 

 a central band of dark purple, and uniting behind. 

 The spring, legs, and underside of body are yellow, 

 the two terminal segments of the antennse with a 

 brownish tinge. 



I found this pretty little species among long grass at 

 High Elms, in June and July. The antenna resemble 

 those of Smynthurus luteus, but the terminal segment is 

 less distinctly ringed. 



The mandibles offer no special peculiarity ; they have 

 respectively four and five teeth ; the one with four has 

 only the terminal one large, the other three are very 

 small. In the mandible with five teeth they are all 

 well marked, increasing in size from the base to the 

 extremity. The feet have the two claws not very 

 dissimilar in size ; the tenent hairs are slightly marked. 



The spring has only a few scattered hairs (PI. LXIII, 

 fig. 2), none of which are tenent. The terminal 

 segment is knife-shaped, somewhat pointed at the 



