. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Egg. Length, mm.; width, mm.; shape almost cyliudrical, but tapering slightly toward the posterior end; color translucent yellowish white. Lakva. Triungulin (fig. 7).—Length, mm.; width, mm. through the head; shape elongate triangular, tapering gradually to the posterior end, which is bluntly i-ounded; color yellow or light brown, with lighter bands on the parts of segments that fold against one another when the body contracts in length; legs 3-jointed, strong; claws three in number (hence the name triu
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Egg. Length, mm.; width, mm.; shape almost cyliudrical, but tapering slightly toward the posterior end; color translucent yellowish white. Lakva. Triungulin (fig. 7).—Length, mm.; width, mm. through the head; shape elongate triangular, tapering gradually to the posterior end, which is bluntly i-ounded; color yellow or light brown, with lighter bands on the parts of segments that fold against one another when the body contracts in length; legs 3-jointed, strong; claws three in number (hence the name triungulin), slender, the two outer ones spinelike; eyes apparently only pigmented spots behind the antennae on the anterior part of and near the outer margins of the head; mandibles flat, sickle-shaped, strong, with notched inner margins; antennae apparently 3-jointed, the third joint divided Avith the dorsal portion the larger and bearing' several spinose hairs; spiracles 9 in number and located above the lateral margins; armature of abdomen consisting of spinose hairs, about 10 in a transverse row near the posterior margin of each segment, and about 6 in a row nearer the anterior margin, those in each row so placed as to be in rows with corresponding hairs on the other abdominal seg- ments ; anal segment with two diverging hairs one- fourth to one-third length of body, projecting poste- riorly from above its tip; hairs also regularly placed on thorax, head, and upper and outer surfaces of mandibles; legs with stiff hairs projecting per- pendicularly on the femur but appressed on the tibia. Carahidoid and scarabaeidoid larvw.— Descriptions of these stages could not be secured from authentic specimens, as they were not reared. Collected larvae that wei'e thought to be in these stages were similar to those figured by Riley * for Epicauta vittata. Coarctate larva (fig. 8).—Length, to mm.; width, to mm.; shape elongate hemispherical, resembling the half of a p
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