Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . l Tineoid moth, Maroga ui^ipunctaria, of South Australia, is the same instructure, though less specialized in the colors of the tubercles and in the sculpturing of thehead, but it has the same shape of the body, the same arrangement of the one-haired tubercles,though the setie are smaller and shorter, and the same complete circles of crochets on all the-abdominal legs. MEMOIES UF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 73 Fig. 31i represents the fresbly Latclicd larva of HeplaJus muxidinus, mm. in lengtli. Thehead is no wider than the prothoracic seg


Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . l Tineoid moth, Maroga ui^ipunctaria, of South Australia, is the same instructure, though less specialized in the colors of the tubercles and in the sculpturing of thehead, but it has the same shape of the body, the same arrangement of the one-haired tubercles,though the setie are smaller and shorter, and the same complete circles of crochets on all the-abdominal legs. MEMOIES UF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 73 Fig. 31i represents the fresbly Latclicd larva of HeplaJus muxidinus, mm. in lengtli. Thehead is no wider than the prothoracic segment, whose dorsal jilate is well developed. The month-parts are quite large, especially the spinneret, while the hairs, which are acute at the end, are iuthis stage as long as the body is broad. Fig. 31i, A shows the arrangement of the one-hairedtubercles on the thoracic and first abdominal segment, and fig. 31i, /> those on the four terminalsegments. The abdominal legs appear to have at this stage only ten crochets, or at leastverv


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