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hind gut just anterior to the silk receptacle) but the other two si 

 attached at the anterior end only with their distal ends extending fii 

 in the body cavity. Fluid waste may possibly be drained off by ti 

 Malpighian tubules attached at both ends (which function throughc 

 the larval life), the fluid probably being passed through the s 



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Figure 6. — Pupae of Sisyra and Climacia. A, Sisyra vicaria (Walker); B, same, maxil y 

 palpus; C, same, tenth tergite, dorsal view; D, Climacia areolaris (Hagen); E, same, maxil y 

 palpus; F, same, tenth tergite, dorsal view. 



receptacle and the rectum. The spinneret occupies the last the 

 abdominal segments in vicaria. Withycombe (1923, p. 524) recorcd 

 eight tubules usually (sometimes seven) in fuscata and terminal 

 with six being looped as usual and the posterior two-thirds pigmen d 

 a dark brown (Withycombe, 1925, p. 368). 



