112 SMYJJTHtJRtJS. 



Smynthuriis aureus, Lubbock. 



Smynthurus aureus, Lubbock. Trans. Linn. Soc, 1862, "p. 589. 



Plate VII. 



Yellow, witli black eyes. Antennae 4-jointed; 

 basal segment skortest, terminal segment longer tkan 

 tke otker tkree. Underside of body pale; saltatory 

 appendage wkite. Body witk a few scattered hairs, 

 which are longer and more numerous towards the 

 posterior extremity. 



Length, sVth of an inch. 



Under damp pieces of wood, and among decaying 

 leaves. 



Common from February to June. 



The four segments of the antennae increase in length 

 progressively from the base to the apex, each being 

 about twice as long as the preceding. The long apical 

 segment has whorls of short hairs, but no distinct 

 evidence of segmentation. The eyes are situated, at 

 usual, on a black ground ; and near the central line, a 

 little in front of the antennae, is a black double spot, 

 which looks like the seat of two ocelli. At the same 

 time I did not obtain by dissection any further evidence 

 that these spots were really in any way connected with 

 vision. 



The two claws are simple, but the feet are provided 

 (perhaps to make up for the simplicity of the claws) with 

 four or five tenent hairs. 



The saltatory appendage is somewhat like that of 

 S. fuscus, but less hairy, being, indeed, almost naked ; 

 the terminal lamellae, however (PL LXIII, fig. 9), are 

 different in form. There are no tenent hairs. 



I at first supposed that these specimens might be the 

 young of some already described species ; but I have 

 never found any larger ones, and they differ in form as 

 well as in colour from all the other representatives of 

 the genus. 



