Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . Fig. 4o. 483. Fig. 407 tip of the abdomen is truncate ; the sides of the bo(ty arestraight, there being no well defined sutures between the seg-ments ; seen laterally the larva is thickest at the nietathoracicring. Two simple eyes are situated near the base of the body is so transparent that the intestine can be tracedeasily to just before the tip, where it ends in a rul de .we. Thetwo anterior pairs of legsare much alike; coxaeshort; fe
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . Fig. 4o. 483. Fig. 407 tip of the abdomen is truncate ; the sides of the bo(ty arestraight, there being no well defined sutures between the seg-ments ; seen laterally the larva is thickest at the nietathoracicring. Two simple eyes are situated near the base of the body is so transparent that the intestine can be tracedeasily to just before the tip, where it ends in a rul de .we. Thetwo anterior pairs of legsare much alike; coxaeshort; femora and tibia?small, cylindrical; a slen-der tibial spur ; the tarsiconsisting of a singleclavate joint equallingthe tibia in length, beingmuch swollen at the tip,and without claws. Thehind tarsi are longer,very slender, two-jointed, the terminal one being bulbous. Theterminal styles, inserted in the tenth abdominal ring, are a littlemore than one-half the length of the body, which is coveredwith long setose scales. In their movements these infinites!- ^j mill larvae were very active, as they scrambled over the bod}of the parent, holding their caudal seta;
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