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length, 1.05 mm. Clypeus, labrum and thoracic shield a tawny olive 

 colour ; head a seal brown ; body a sordid straw colour. The tubercles 

 proportionately smaller and the hairs longer than in the full grown larva. 

 Larva (Fig. i,b), (last stage) length, 2 cm.; head, diameter, .32 mm. 

 body, diameter, 3.7 mm. Head and thoracic shield black; scattering 

 hairs occur on the head. Dorsal surface of body pale green with black 

 tubercles. There are four tubercles on each side of the third and fourth 

 segments, three in a row extending ventro cephalad and the fourth caudad 

 of the last one in the row. The dorsum of the remaining segments i 



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Fig. 2. 

 Nomophila noctuella: a, eggs, x 40 ; g, male genitalia (mesal aspect of right harpe and clasper), 



x 80; h, venation of wings, female, x 4. 



divided by a slight transverse constriction into a cephalic and caudal 

 part ; the cephalic part of each segment bears three tubercles in a row, 

 extending ventrad and forming with the tubercles of the third and fourth 



