Results of work on blister beetles in Kansas . tself and explores the narrowconfines of its chamber. A thin, transparent, parchment-like mem-brane loosens on the surface of its body and is torn beyond recogni-tion by the sharp tarsal claws. Adults frompupse that have formed against the walls ofglass containers have remained in the ceilsfor several days after transformation beforedigging to the surface. Whether or not suchis the case when light is excluded was notdetermined. Macrobasis uxicolor Kirby. The data secured on Macrobasis unicoloradd nothing to the general account given forMacrobasis
Results of work on blister beetles in Kansas . tself and explores the narrowconfines of its chamber. A thin, transparent, parchment-like mem-brane loosens on the surface of its body and is torn beyond recogni-tion by the sharp tarsal claws. Adults frompupse that have formed against the walls ofglass containers have remained in the ceilsfor several days after transformation beforedigging to the surface. Whether or not suchis the case when light is excluded was notdetermined. Macrobasis uxicolor Kirby. The data secured on Macrobasis unicoloradd nothing to the general account given forMacrobasis immaculata. The third larvaehave been collected by April 15, and eight specimens secured by that time had yielded fig. 12.—The spotted wisthe adults by May 30. The data on M. uni-color indicate that it, also, hibernates as coarc- RESULTS OF WORK ON EPICAUTA. descriptive. Epicauta maculata specimens of Epicauta maculata (fig. 12) varied from 10 mm. longby mm. wide to 13 mm. long by mm. wide, which makes it one of the. ter beetle {Epicautamaculata). Enlarged.(Chittenden.) BLISTER BEETLES IN KANSAS. 13 smallest of our common blister beetles. The color may be either light grayor yellowish, with scattered naked spots of the black background. The blackspots vary both in size and location, being barely dis-cernible on some beetles and at least mm. in di-ameter on others. Egg. The egg of this species resembles that of Macro-basis immaculata, but is smaller. Larva. Triungulin (fig. 13).—Length, about mm.;width, about mm.; widest in front of middle ofhead just behind eyes, from which point the headtapers posteriorly for the last half or more of itslength. In this respect it agrees with triungulins ofEpicauta pcnnsylvanica and E. lemmiscata,3 but dif-fers from Rileys figure of E. vittata* The head ofthe latter is parallel-sided, resembling Macrobasisimmaculata, but differing in having a very short pos-terior portion or neck and in having the eyes
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