THE 
MONTHLY MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 
APKIL 1, 1869. 
I. — Notes on the Scale-hearing Podurm. 
By S. J. McIntiee, F.K.M.S. 
{Read hefore the Eotal Microscopical Society, January 13, 18G9.) 
The promise once made to this Society, in a paper by the late 
Mr. E. Beck, on the Scale of Lepidocyrtus, to describe certain 
interesting species of Podurse other than that from which the 
celebrated "test" scales are obtained, induces me to endeavour 
to fill up this much- to-be-lamented blank, since the subject of 
podurse-scales has been an interesting one to the microscopical 
observer for many years. I detail my own experiences in the 
search after them, but at the same time I acknowledge the great 
assistance I have derived from the occasional perusal, when I have 
had the opportunity, of Sir John Lubbock's admirable papers on the 
Thysanura, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, and will 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES VIL & VIIL 
Plate YII. 
Fig. 1. — Breeding-cage for Podurse. 
A. Plate-glass. 
B. Sheet-cork. 
C. Blotting-paper. 
D. Plate-glass. 
EE. Elastic Bands. 
„ 2. — Degeeria ("Speckled Podura") x 15 diameters. 
2a. Side-view of the same, less magnified. 
2&. Scale of same x 250. 
„ 3. — Degeeria (unnamed, by S. J. M.) x 25. 
3a. Side-view of the same, less magnified. 
36. Group of scales from same x 250. 
„ 4,— Templetonia (Nitida?) x 20. 
4a. Side-view of same, less magnified. 
4&. Group of scales from same x 250. 
Plate VIIT. 
„ 5. — Macrotoma Plumbea x 20. 
5a. Side-view of same. 
5h. Group of scales from same x 250. 
„ 6. — Lepidocyrtus curvicollis x 20. 
6a. Dorsal aspect. 
6&. Lateral view of same. 
Cc. Two scales from same x 250, 
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