SOME AUSTEALA.SIAN COLLEMBOLA. 335 



years in my possession, and I have tried, but in vain, to obtain 

 more, in hopes o£ being able to give a more complete list of 

 Australasian Collembola. Possibly the publication of this paper 

 may induce entomologists to devote some attention to this in- 

 teresting, though inconspicuous, group. 



AnOURA TASMANIA, Sp. U. (Fig. 1.) 



Body long elliptical, dark purplish. Ocelli on a short pear- 

 shaped bulb, about ten in number, on a reddish-black granular 

 pigment, which covers most of the bulb, leaving only narrow 

 interspaces. The antepenultimate segment of the antenna is 

 quite short and almost covered by the overlapping edges of the 

 2nd segment. The body-segraents present a series of arching 

 mammillae, and the skin is covered with scutellated, stiff, curved, 

 whip-like hairs. Foot without tenent - hairs. Claw single, 

 without teeth. 



Length -25 in. Breadth '1 in. 



Sab. Tasmania ; found under a fallen log (A. Dendy). 



Fig. 1. 



Anoitra tasmanicB. X 10. 



The colouring-matter is arranged in meshes, leaving more or 

 less circular colourless spaces. The skin itself is covered with 

 minute granules and rather long whip-like hairs. 



