One does not usually associate springtails with snakes. Nevertheless a snake was indirectly responsible for the discovery of the first North American representative of the interesting and peculiar Collembolan genus Oncopodura. In 1932 Professor J. E. Guthrie received a snake from Mr. O. C. Van Hyning of Marianna, Florida, mailed alive in moss. Instead of discarding the moss, Professor Guthrie requested that its Arthropod fauna be extracted.