COLLEMBOLA OF MINNESOTA 53 



ance suggests that of S. multifasciatus Reuter, and I was long 

 in doubt as to whether it might not be merely a variety ; but 

 the mucrones is distinctly serrate, while that of Renter's species, 

 to quote Schott, "hat die Rander ganz glatt." S. multifasciatus 

 also differs in wanting the inner denticle on the claw. Again, 

 in color, neither the figure of Reuter nor that of Schott shows 

 the median dorsal band. 



Sminthurus fuscus (L.). 



PL II, Figs. 1-9. 



1743. Podura fusca, globoso, aiitennis longis articulis plurimis. DeGecr, 



Vet. Akad's Handl. Vol. IV, p. 296. 



1746. Podura globosa fusca. Linne, Fauna Suecica. 



1758. Podura fusca. Linne, Syst Nat. Ed. X. Tome I, 608. 



1762. Podura f usco-nigra ; abdomine globoso signaturis ferrugiiieis. 



Geoff roy, Ins. Env. Paris. 



1762. La Podure brune enfumee. Geofifroy, Ins. Env. Paris. 



1767. Podura atra. Linne, Syst. Nat. Ed. XII. Tome I, 2. p. 1019. 



1776. Podura atra. Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 



1778. La Podure brune ronde. DeGeer, Gesch. d. Ins. 



1 781. Podura atra. Schrank, Enum. Insect. Austr. p. 495. 



1781. Podura atra. Fabricius, Spec. Ins. 1. p. 381. 



1 781. Podura signata. Fabricius, Spec. Ins. 



1804. Smynthurus fuscus. Latreille, Hist. Nat. VIII, p. 82. 



1804. Smynthurus signatus. Latreille, Hist. Nat. VIII, p. 82. 



1835. Smynthurus fuscus. Lacordaire & Boisd., Faun. Ent. Env. Paris. 



1835. Smynthurus ater. Lacordaire & Boisd., Faun. Ent. Env. Paris. 



1835. Smynthurus signatus. Lacordaire & Boisd., Faun. Ent. Env. Paris. 



1835. Smynthurus ater. Templeton, Trans. Ent. Soc. I. 



1838. Smynthurus fuscus. Burmeister, Handb. d. Entom. II. 2, p. 451. 



1839. Smynthurus fuscus. Bourlet, Mem. Soc. Roy. Lille. 

 1842. Smynthurus fuscus. Luci;, Hi it N;'.*.. Ani-T. .Air. 

 1842. Smynthurus ater. Lucas, Hist. Nat. Anim. Art. 

 1842. Smynthurus signatus. Lucas, Hist. Nat. Anim. Art. 

 1842. Smynthurus fuscus. Bourlet, Mem. Soc. Roy. Douai. 

 1842. Smynthurus signatus. Nicolet, Mem. Soc. Helv. 

 1844 Smynthurus ater. Gervais, in Ins. Apt. Ill, 492. 

 1844. Smynthurus signatus. Gfervais, in Ins. Apt. Ill, 400. 



1862. Smynthurus buskii. Lubbock, Notes on the Thys. PL I, p. 431. 



1869. Smyntliurus signatus. Porath, Of. af. k. Vet-Akad. Forhandl. 



1871. Smynthurus fuscus. Tullberg, Fort, ofver. Sv. Podur. p. 144. 



1872. Smynthurus fuscus. Tullberg, Sver. Podur. p. 29. PI. I, 1-27; II, 



