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the flowers and young seed. The other differs somewhr.t in 

 color, but its work is identical with the first. The caterpillars 

 of both are variably green in color, fuzzy, short and stubby, 

 varying in length from I/4 to i/o an inch Avhen full grown, and 

 about Ya as wide (Fig. 3 />). Their identify has not been tiscer- 

 tained, but their work is so similar in appearance that for our 

 purpose this meagre description will answer, at least for the present. 

 The e three caterpillars are so abundant at present that no flower 

 is without one or both of them, and more frequently several speci- 

 mens of each infest a single flower head. Especially is this 

 true of flowers at lower elevations, so that there the chances 

 for the production of seed are very poor indeed. 



LANTAXA LEAF INSECTS. 



Fig. 6. — Lantana leaf miner: a, larva: h, pupa; r, cocoon, containing pupa, in situ: rf, 

 adult. Hair lines show natural size. (Author's illustration). 



