DESCRIPTION OF LARVAE AND PUPAE OF 

 CERTAIN SPECIES OF PAPAIPEMA. 



BY DR. H. J. FRANKLIN, ASSISTANT IN ENTOMOLOGICAL DIVISION, MINN. 



EXP. STATION. 



Paf^aif't'iiia iiifcla Gn. 



bSM 



Fig. 102. Larva of P. n(7e?«. Original. 



Larva : 



Length. 30 mm. ; width of liead, 2.889 mm. Head Hght chestnut 

 brown in color with a blackish stripe on each side, running from the 

 hind margin forward, and inclufling the ocelli. Mandibles and labrum 

 blackish. Six ocelli present on each side of the head. Scattering, 

 rather long hairs present on the head. Body mostly pale iiesh color. 

 Cervical shield rather light brown with a blackish stripe on eaclj side 

 margin ; a rather light longitudinal media line and a somewhat darker 

 brown spot on each side of this line on the hind border. Dorsum of 

 body with a narrow light, longitudinal median stripe running the en- 

 tire length, from the cervical shield to the supra-anal plate. Each 

 side of the body with a light stripe running forward from the front 

 margin of the anal segment to somewhat behind the middle of the 

 fourth abdominal segment, and a similar, though narrower and usuall} 

 less sharply defined lateral longitudinal stripe running from the hind 

 margin of the cervical shield back nearly to the hind margin of the 

 metathoracic segment, ^'entral side of body light, with rather dark 

 brown legs on the thoracic segments, and a pinkish tinge on the first 

 and second abdominal segments. Spiracles mostly black. Body naked, 

 with scattering setse. The second thoracic segment with one trans- 

 versely elongated brown spot, and two brown seta-bearing dots behind 

 it on each side of the dorsum. Third thoracic segment with two seta- 

 bearing brown dots on each side of the dorsum, all in the same line 

 across the body. Each of the first eight abdominal segments, with two 

 pairs of brown seta-bearing dots on the dorsum, the dots of the hinder 

 pair being more widely separated than those of the front pair. Supra- 

 anal shield brown for mosf part, but somewhat blackish on the sides. 

 Second segment in front of the anal one with two large brown spots 

 on each side of the dorsum and the preanal segment with one large 



