24 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 191I. 



THYSANURA. 



Sniynthurits albamaculata (Garden flea). 



A correspondent from Newport Farm, Maine, sent in speci- 

 mens of tliis insect with the statement : " '^ * * they eat up 

 everything in sight. I am also sending you a sample of their 

 work on peas and onions. As for small seedlings such as beets, 

 carrots, and spinach, they eat them as soon as they break 

 ground." Accounts of the habits together with the description 

 of this species were published in the Report of the Maine Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station for 1896, pp. 124-126. See also 

 notes in Bulletins No. 123, p. 220, and No. 134, p. 225. Lot 

 No. 1152. 



