Hypermetamorphosis 



The first was put in a place of safety with a 

 thousand precautions, the second was at once 

 immersed in alcohol. 



These larvae are blind, soft, fleshy, yel- 

 lowish white, covered with a fine down visible 

 only under the lens, curved into a fish-hook 

 like the larvae of the Lamellicorns, to which 

 they bear a certain resemblance in their ge- 

 neral configuration. The segments, includ- 

 ing the head, number thirteen, of which nine 

 are provided with breathing-holes with a 

 pale, oval rim. These are the mesothorax 

 and the first eight abdominal segments. As 

 in the Sitaris-larvae, the last pair of stigmata, 

 that of the eighth segment of the abdomen, 

 is less developed than the rest. 



The head is horny, of a light brown 

 colour. The epistoma is edged with brown. 

 The labrum is prominent, white and trape- 

 zoidal. The mandibles are black, strong, 

 short, obtuse, only slightly curved, sharp- 

 edged and furnished each with a broad tooth 

 on the inner side. The maxillary and labial 

 palpi are brown and shaped like very small 

 studs with two or three joints to them. The 

 antennae, inserted just at the base of the 

 mandibles, are brown, and consist of three 

 sections: the first is thick and globular; the 

 two others are much smaller in diameter and 

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