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Fig. 75. Head of Ischnodes 

 sanguinicoUis, upper side. 



Ischnodes sanguinicollis. 



Described from 2 larvæ, the one of which headless, in 

 possession of the Zoological Museum, marked »Ischnodes 

 sanguinicollis, Dania« but without any further explication. 



The colour of the 

 larva (in alcohol) is 

 pale brownish yellow; 

 the head and 9"' ab- 

 dominal segment little 

 darker and mandibulæ 

 and the Avhole episto- 

 ma very dark. The 2 

 larvæ described were 

 in length 12,5 m/m 

 and 14 m/ra (the lat- 

 ter without head). The 

 body is cylindrical, in- 

 considerably broader at 

 5th. gth abdominal seg- 

 ment, the breadth here 

 scarcely 1,5 m/m and 

 1,75 m/m in the 2 

 larvæ. Head and body 

 segments are all coar- 

 sely punctated. 



Head. Epistoma 

 anteriorly in the middle 

 with an acute triangu- 

 lar nasal tooth which 

 in its middle is keel- 

 shaped elevated. In the sinuosities between nasale and the 

 mandibular sclerit a rather short bristle is placed, at the 

 inner part of the mandibular sclerit 3 other bristles fix, of 

 which the median one is placed a little in the rear of the 

 others in a larger fovea. On frontale behind the backwards- 

 going edge of epistoma there is a large fovea with a long 



Fig. 76. Head of Ischnodes 

 sanguinicollis, under side. 



