Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . !FlQ. 31.—Larva ami p»pa of Mepialidtf. 1. Hepialus mnstelinui.—Freshly hatchedlarva; ^.thoracic segments; J?, terminal abdominal segments. 2. nepialiishuimdi.—^^^^of hod .y of pupa; , anal legs; JX, male genital organs. 3. CEnotus virescens.—Headof pupa; mxp, maxillary palpi; mx. y, labial palpi. 4. if. humuli.—Head of pupa.(Cut loaned hy the New Xorli Entomological Society.) Beginning with the larva, tliat of the Australian Oncopcra inlHcata, when compared withthe larva of the colossal Tineoid moth, Maroga ui^ipunctaria, of South Australia, is


Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . !FlQ. 31.—Larva ami p»pa of Mepialidtf. 1. Hepialus mnstelinui.—Freshly hatchedlarva; ^.thoracic segments; J?, terminal abdominal segments. 2. nepialiishuimdi.—^^^^of hod .y of pupa; , anal legs; JX, male genital organs. 3. CEnotus virescens.—Headof pupa; mxp, maxillary palpi; mx. y, labial palpi. 4. if. humuli.—Head of pupa.(Cut loaned hy the New Xorli Entomological Society.) Beginning with the larva, tliat of the Australian Oncopcra inlHcata, when compared withthe larva of the colossal 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,


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