26. A New Springtail from Galilee. 
By Proressor George H. Carpenter, B.So., M.B.I. As, 
Royal College of Science, Dublin 
Communicated by Dr. N. ANNANDALE. 
(Plate VIII.) 
. N. Annandale’s ep is researches in and around 
the Lake of Galilee in October, 1912, have resulted in the dis- 
covery of a single species of ia Co liewibolé or “‘ Springtails ’’ 
which proves to be of considerable interest, and I am oo 
grateful to him for having kindly entrusted his specimens to 
for study and description. He found the frail white rset: 
referable to a new species of the genus Cyphoderus, beneat 
stones at the edge of a brackish spring on pes oe of the lake, 
about two miles north of the town of Tiber 
Order COLLEMBOLA. 
Family ENnTroOMOBRYIDAE. 
Genus CypHoperus, Nicolet. 
f oO 
termites, and in correspondence with their dark dweltiogipleses: 
are white and blin d. 
Cyphoderus genneserae, sp. nov. 
Length 15mm. Feelers twice as long as head. Foot with 
apical hair tapering, not clubbed, claw with a large and a small 
basal tooth. Spring with dens and mucro together as long as 
diinapabieiaens: dens two and a half times as long as mucro ; mucro 
with three teeth (one apical and two dorsal). Colour white. 
ity. In salt spring on ape eg near Tiberias. 
Types in tndkati Museum, Calcutt 
