. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BLISTKR IX KANSAS. 9 assuming a horseshoe shape when :it rest; hend hoi-iiy, yellowish, with front almost vertical; mandibles brown, curveil; autenu:e situated above the outer edges of the bases of the mandibles, apparently tliree-jointed, with two fleshy projections on the distal end of the third segment; first and second antennal segments with basal rings of brown and third segment brown for almost its entire length; eyes minute black spots above the bases of the antennjB; sutures extending diagonally backwa
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. BLISTKR IX KANSAS. 9 assuming a horseshoe shape when :it rest; hend hoi-iiy, yellowish, with front almost vertical; mandibles brown, curveil; autenu:e situated above the outer edges of the bases of the mandibles, apparently tliree-jointed, with two fleshy projections on the distal end of the third segment; first and second antennal segments with basal rings of brown and third segment brown for almost its entire length; eyes minute black spots above the bases of the antennjB; sutures extending diagonally backward from the bases of the antennae, meeting at the median line above the middle of the front; labrum separated from the front by a brown suture; legs fleshy, jointed, the distal ends thickly studded wuth stiff: brown spines; spiracles on second body segment and on fourth to eleventh. inclusive. Pupa. Length, about 17 mm.; width, about 7 mm. (measured from tip to tip trans- versely extended femora) ; color yellowish white with translucent appendages; head appressetl on prothorax until front is almost parallel with body; femur and tibia of each leg folded together and extending forward, upward, and out- ward ; tarsi extending posteriorly on the venter; antennae extending pos- teriorly dorsal to the anterior and middle legs; posterior margins of pro- thorax and abdominal segments bearing stiff, curved spines. ]VL\ rXICOLOR KiRBT. Specimens of Macrohasis unkol<jr eolh-cted at (Jarde:) City. Kaus., averaged about mm. long and mm. wide. Blatchley gives the limits of their variation in length as 8 to 15 mm. It is the slen- derest of our species (fig. 9) and the sides are almost parallel; color ashy gray, sometimes with a yellow- ish cast, but more uniform than in any other species collected at Garden City, except the black ones. Egg. The eggs were not secured nor were the growing stages of the larva^ identified. COARCTATE LaRVA. Five specimens vary in lengt
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