. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CliJorolestes conspicua. Larva, mask and ca\idal gill. Twig showing- punctures for insertion of eggs. All enlarged. prominent, bilobed with rather deep almost closed cleft; lateral lobes moderately slender, ending in two teeth, the inner longer than the outer, movable hook long and slender; no mental or lateral setae. Legs slender. Abdomen strongly keeled laterally. Caudal gills simple, broadly ovate, apically rounded, secondary tracheae oblique. In habits the larva lives very openly and swims freely,
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CliJorolestes conspicua. Larva, mask and ca\idal gill. Twig showing- punctures for insertion of eggs. All enlarged. prominent, bilobed with rather deep almost closed cleft; lateral lobes moderately slender, ending in two teeth, the inner longer than the outer, movable hook long and slender; no mental or lateral setae. Legs slender. Abdomen strongly keeled laterally. Caudal gills simple, broadly ovate, apically rounded, secondary tracheae oblique. In habits the larva lives very openly and swims freely, preferring a clear stony or sandy bottom with not too much vegetation. The similarity of the larva to that of Synlestes is apparent, and fully confirms the correctness of Eis' proposal (supra, p. 268), based on the wing structure of the imago, to remove Chlorolestes from the Aarionidae and to place it in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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