142 TEMPLETONIA. 



There must, I think, be some mistake about the 

 figure given by Kolenati. 



Wankel, in the ' Yerh. d. Zool. Bot. Yer. Wien,' for 

 1854, has described what appears to be a third species 

 of this genus. 



Templetonia, Luhhoch. 



Tem;pletonia, Lubbock, Trans. Linn. Soc, 1862. 



Plate LYI, figs. 8—31. 



Body long, cylindrical, pro\dded with clubbed hairs 

 like those of Degeeria and OrcheseUa, and also with 

 scales. Segments eight in number, subequal. Head 

 direct, or nearly so. Antennas longer than the head, 

 5-jointed ; the basal segment short, the three follow- 

 ing subequal, the apical ringed. Feet biunguiculate. 

 Basal part of the saltatory appendage more than half 

 as long as the two terminal lamellae. 



I proposed this genus in 1862 for the reception of 

 Templeton's Poclura nitida. The structure of the 

 antennae is alone sufficient to distinguish it from all the 

 other genera of Collembola They have five segments, 

 of which the first is quite short, the three following are 

 cylindrical and subequal, while the terminal is ringed 

 and shows, therefore, some approximation to a charac- 

 ter hitherto peculiar to Tomoccrus. Temj^iletonia differs 

 also from Isotoma in the peculiar form of the hairs, in the 

 presence of scales, and in the form of the saltatory 

 appendage, while agreeing with it in the general form 

 of the body. On the other hand, while agreeing with 

 Degeeria in the tegnmentary appendages, it differs in 

 the form of the body-segments. At the same time, it 

 is more nearly allied to Degeeria and Isotoma than to 

 the other allied genera, though in the position of the 

 head it makes some approach to Le'pidocyrtiis, and in 

 the termination of the antenna to Tomocerus. On the 

 whole, therefore, this genus presents us with a most 

 interesting combination of characters. 



