ARTICLE XVII.-ON SOME SUBANTARCTIC COLLKMBOLA. 



By George H. Carpenter, B.Sc. Lond., M.R.I.A., Professor of Zoology in the Eoyal College of 



Science, Dublin. 



PLATE XVni. 



The two species of springtails recorded in the present paper were collected on two 

 of the small and remote islands lying in the Antarctic Ocean to the couth of New 

 Zealand— Macquarie Island (54° 37' S. lat., 158° 34' E. long.) and Campbell Island 

 (52° 26' S. lat., 169° 20' E. long.). For the opportunity of examining the speci- 

 mens from the former locality I am indebted to Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, of the British 

 Museum, while those from Campbell Island have been sent to me by Mr. C. J. Lamb, 

 of Cambridge University. Only one species is represented among the numerous 

 specimens from each island. It is interesting to find that, while one of them is not 

 separable from a common British and European springtail with an immensely wide 

 range, the other is a new species of a characteristically subantarctic genus hitherto 

 known only from Tierra del Fuego. Both species are referable to the same family 

 and subfamily. 



Order COLLEMBOLA. 



Fam. PODURIDAE. 



Subfam. ACHORUTINAE. 



Genus Achorutes, Tempi.* 



Achorutes viaticus, Tullberg. 



Localily. — Macquarie Island. Numerous specimens collected, November, 1901. 



This springtail is probably well-nigh cosmopolitan in its range. Already 

 (Schaeffer, 1897, p. 12) has it been recorded from the subantarctic regions of South 

 America, as specimens were obtained from Punta Arenas, on the continental (Pata- 

 gonian) shore of the Straits of Magellan, and also from Uschuaia, off Tierra del 

 Fuego. Its wide distribution in the Northern Hemisphere may be inferred from 

 the list of localities compiled by Schaeffer (1897), who mentions Siberia, Spitz- 



* I deliberately abstain from following Bomer (1906) in transferring this well-known name from 

 the genus to which it has belonged for seventy years to that hitherto universally known as Anoura or 

 Neanura. Changes like this can only confuse nomenclature without advancing science, and an analogous 

 change previously made by the same author (the substitution of Podura for Tomocerus) has been sub- 

 sequently withdrawn as unwarranted. 

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