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 3- Procladius concinnus Coquillett 



Taniipns concinnus Coquillett, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1895, p. .308. 



Larva. — Length, 6.5-8 mm. Blood-red. Head about 1.5 times 

 as long as broad; labrum as in Figure 12, Plate XXV; antenna about 

 half as long as head, basal portion about six sevenths of the entire 

 length (PI. XXIV, Fig. 15) ; mandible brown at ape.K, central tooth on 

 inner surface poorly developed ; labium as in Figure 6, Plate XXV ; 

 labial papillae as in Figure 9, Plate XXV ; maxillary palpus as in Fig- 

 ure 6, Plate XXIV; eye spot double, the spots almost confluent. An- 

 terior pseudopods short and stout ; abdominal segments with numer- 

 ous very fine hairs; posterior pseudopods short and stout, their apices 

 with pale brown claws ; dorsal respiratory organs stout, with two dis- 

 tinct hairs just above their bases ; dorsal tuft with about twenty long 

 sensory hairs, the basal papillae about twice as long as thick, dorsal 

 view of anal segments as in Figure 15, Plate XXVI. 



Pupa. — Length, 5-6 mm. Reddish, becoming brownish as the 

 time for emergence of the adult approaches. Respiratory organ as in 

 Figure 4, Plate XXVII (part of the trachea shown) ; a short trans- 

 verse row of minute tubercles extending from near the base of each 

 respiratory organ towards the mesial line. Slightly beyond the mid- 

 dle of the lateral margin on each segment there is a small wartlike pro- 

 tuberance armed with hairs as shown in Figure 6, Plate XXVI ; lat- 

 eral margin of penultimate segment with eight long lanceolate hairs, 

 serially arranged on the apical four-fifths; last segment with a patch 

 of microscopic setulae on the dorsal surface near base, and five long, 

 lanceolate, lateral hairs ; apical appendage elongate, rounded at apex, 

 the two lanceolate hairs not very broad, the small marginal hairs ex- 

 traordinarily numerous and very fine. 



Imago; Male and Female. — Pile yellowish buff, slightly shining. 

 Head and its appendages yellow, in female sometimes brownish; an- 

 tennal plumes in male yellow. Mesonotum with the vittae reddish, the 

 vitta on each side in male with its outer margin broadly black from 

 middle to posterior extremity, the central vitta in female generally 

 with the lateral margins blackened and the black color of the lateral 

 pair confined to the apices ; scutellum with a black spot on each side ; 

 postnotum black on center or entirely black; disc of mesonotum in 

 male noticeably white pollinose between the vittae ; pleurae immaculate, 

 or with a brownish spot below wing-base. Abdomen with a brown 

 band at bases of segments two to six in male, the band in female often 

 reduced to a transverse series of three spots on each segment. Legs 

 yellow, a narrow ring at apices of all tibiae and at apices of basal joint 



