. Report of the State Entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York. ruction of the early crop of seed has been sug-gested as a means of eliminating a large percentage of the midgesand thus securing a nearly full, clean, late crop. Description. Egg. Length .15 mm, pale pink or yellow, delicate,elongate, cylindric. Larva. The full-grown larva is broadly oval, deep red and with adistinct breastbone. REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I917 109 Pupa. The newly formed pupa is of a unifomi deep red color,the head and appendages turning black before the appearance ofthe fly. This
. Report of the State Entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York. ruction of the early crop of seed has been sug-gested as a means of eliminating a large percentage of the midgesand thus securing a nearly full, clean, late crop. Description. Egg. Length .15 mm, pale pink or yellow, delicate,elongate, cylindric. Larva. The full-grown larva is broadly oval, deep red and with adistinct breastbone. REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I917 109 Pupa. The newly formed pupa is of a unifomi deep red color,the head and appendages turning black before the appearance ofthe fly. This pupa is inclosed in a delicate, muddy Ijrown envelopresembhng the flax seed of the Hessian fly. Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, ratherthickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth with stems oneand one-half and as long as their diameters respectively; terminalsegment, basal enlargement subglobose, the basal portion of the stemshort, the distal enlargement broadly oval, with a very short, stoutprocess apically. Palpi; the first segment stout,
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