KRIENTAL COLLEMBOLA. 95 



Genus Entomobrya llondani. 



t Entomohrj/a Roiulani, Dipterol. Ital. Prodr. vol. iv. 



Degeeria Nicolet, Recli. p. s. u I'liist. d. Podur., 1842, p. 70. 



Entomobrya Bonier, " Das Syst. Coll.,"' Mitt. Katnrlii.st. Mus. 

 Hamburg, 190G, xxiii. p. 1G4. [Iiicluiliiig HoDiidia l>uruer and 

 iSineUa Hi'ook.] 



*ExTOMOBUYA KALI, sp. n. (Pi. VII. fig. 33; PI. yill. 

 ligs. 34-3(i.) 



Antenna', trunciim longitudine fere opquantes. Seymentum 

 ahdominale qiuirtnm plus dimidia tranci parte occvpans. Mucrones 

 denticulis duohus atqae seta spinifornie una instructi. Flava ; 

 anteriore parte capitis, inarginibas segmenti seciindi thoracis, 

 segmentis secandis tertiisque abdominis, et fascia transversa j^osteriore 

 quarti, nigris. Long. P75-2 inm. 



Head. — Slightly longer than broad ; clothed with short, scattered 

 plumose hairs and a dorsal tuft of very long, stout setfe, ciliated 

 along one side at tlieir apices. The ei/es eight in number on 

 each side. 



Antennce. — UsumII}^ very nearly equal in length to the body 

 excluding the head, but in some specimens they exceed the length 

 of the body. Four jointed, densely clothed with hairs, dispersed 

 among which ai'e slender seta^. The joints related to one another 

 in length as 5:6:6:11; the ring-like basal joint, typically 

 present in the genus Entomohri/a, is absent. 



Trunk. — Fusiform, clothed with short, curved plumose hairs, 

 scattered among which ai-e slender set;e. The thorax and first 

 two abdominal segments pi-ovided dorsally with veiy long, stout 

 setae, ciliated along one side at their apices (fig. 36) ; a tuft of 

 similar setfe at the apex of the abdomen. The trunk segments 

 related proportionately in length as 11 : 5 : 3 : 6 : 6 : 45 : 5 : 1 

 (fig. 34). 



Legs. — Clothed with hairs among which are slender setae. 

 The superior claws moderately slender and bidentate along the 

 inner margin (fig. 33) ; the teeth situated respectively from tlie 

 apex of the claw at a, distance equal to one quarter and one half 

 the total length of the latter. The inferior ckars a little more 

 than half tlie length of the superior claws, acuminate and sharply 

 pointed, the margins without any teeth. A single tenent hair 

 in relation to each foot. 



Furcula. — As long as the trunk excluding the mesothorax ; 

 densely clothed with hairs, dispersed among which are slender 

 setae. The dentes a little longer than the manuhrittm, very slender, 

 and each is provided with a double row of small peg-like spines 

 along the proximal half of its inner aspect. The niuc^^ones tri- 

 dentate, with a carved terminal tooth, a stout erect conical 

 middle tooth, and an oblique a.cicular posterior tooth (fig. 35), 



Coloration. — Light ochre-yellow marked with patches of violet- 

 black. The eyes on a large irregular black area on each side ; a 



