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velopment. The adult larva differs little from the youngest and is 

 shown in Fig. 6. It is long, cylindrical and hypocephalic, i. e., with 

 the head on the ventral side instead of being terminal. Unhke the 

 various larvae described above, it has a pair of swollen appendages, 

 belonging to the prothoracic segment and applied to the sides of the 



Fig. 6. Adult larva of Tetraponcra tcssmanni Stitz. 



head, and a large protuberance, evidently representing a pair of 

 fused appendages, on the ventral side of the first abdominal segment. 

 The dorsal surface is furnished with long, hook-shaped hairs, by 

 means of which the larva is evidently suspended from the walls of 

 the nest in the same manner as some of our American ant larvae 

 (PJicidolc, Lcptothorax, etc.) which have similar dorsal hairs. 



