Natural history . i INSECTA APTEBA. By GEORGE H. CARPENTER, (Loxo.), ,Professor of Zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. (1 Plate.) THE explorations of the National Antarctic Expedition have established the presenceof a wingless insect of exceptional interest, far south in the Continent of \ ictoriaLand. From Granite Harbour, 77° S. hit. and 162° E. long., on the south-trendingcontinental coast-line, almost opposite Ross Island, on which stand .Mounts Ereliusand Terror, and about 100 miles of the AVinter (Quarters of the Discovery, ajar-full of moss believed to co
Natural history . i INSECTA APTEBA. By GEORGE H. CARPENTER, (Loxo.), ,Professor of Zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. (1 Plate.) THE explorations of the National Antarctic Expedition have established the presenceof a wingless insect of exceptional interest, far south in the Continent of \ ictoriaLand. From Granite Harbour, 77° S. hit. and 162° E. long., on the south-trendingcontinental coast-line, almost opposite Ross Island, on which stand .Mounts Ereliusand Terror, and about 100 miles of the AVinter (Quarters of the Discovery, ajar-full of moss believed to contain Collembola was secured. Examination of thismaterial has resulted in the detection of half-a-dozen very imperfect specimens of a smalldark-blue spriugtail. Unfortunately, these insects are in a poor state of preservation ;cither the spirit in which the moss was placed was too strong, or the insects had diedand shrivelled before the moss was collected. The result, however, is that no reallygood example of th
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