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nized, the larva as a whole looks very solid, and is rather 

 unicolorous over the whole body. 



The head is horizontally projected and, except in Se- 

 ricosomus, flattened above. Of muscular furrows there only exists 

 a pair of broad dorsal longitudinal ones on frontale, begin- 

 ning in front in the sinuosities between nasale and the 

 mandibular sclerits, and stretching shorter or longer to the 

 rear. The underside of the head has also constantly a pair 

 of longitudinal furrows, beginning in front behind the man- 

 dibulæ, and running parallel to the outer margin of the 

 maxillæ a rather long stretch in the rear. Only the Agryp- 

 nini have other and more muscular furrows. All known 

 Danish forms have on each side 1 ocellus. Antennæ are 

 short, conical, 3-jointed. Often, the connecting membrane 

 between the head and the inner joint is strongly chitinized, 

 the antennæ thus looking like 4-jointed as Per ris indeed 

 takes them to be. Epistoma (the anterior area of frontale) in 

 the middle of the anterior margin runs into a nasale, being 

 either 3-divided i. e. consisting of 3 teeth, independent one 

 of another (Agrypnini) or single, only being 1 tooth, which 

 may taper to a point or terminate tridented. In the forms 

 having trident nasale the 3 points are not always well se- 

 parated. Individually they can melt more or less together. 

 Cases can be seen where the 3 points normally placed in 

 the same elevation are melted quite together into a single 

 tooth, then anteriorly cut off. On each side of nasale 

 epistoma continues in a mandibular sclerit, the anterior edge 

 of which firstly runs obliquely outwards and forwards, often 

 faintly arched, to a point about in the same elevation as 

 the nasal teeth or more anteriorly. From this point the 

 margin runs just in the rear till it is in the same height 

 as the sinuosities between nasale and the mandibular sclerit. 

 Then the edge runs outwards faintly arched, covering the 

 insertion of mandibula and at last limiting a little part of 

 the antenna, otherwise limited by epicranium. The mouth 

 is large. 



