Podura. APTERA. 237 



Genus II. Podura. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 1013. 



The Podura has fix feet, which are 

 formed for running. 



The eyes are two in number. 



The tail is forked, bent inwards under 

 the body, elaftic, and adts like a fpring, by 

 which the infed: leaps. 



The antennx are long and fetaceous. 



Schasffer fays, with Geoffroy, that the body 

 is covered with fcales, and the laft-mentioned 

 author has divided the Podurae into rwo fami- 

 lies ; the firft containing thofe of a fhort and 

 globular form \ the other, thofe of a long and 

 (lender make; the antennae, according to the 

 fame author, are filiform. 



The Podura pretty much refembles the Pedi- 

 culus, from which it differs principally in its 

 tail ; that part, when the infecl is at reft, or 

 walks undifturbed, is bent under the abdomen, 

 and preferved in a kind of groove, from which, 



when 



