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dusky spot on each segment, not reaching the lateral margin and interrupted by a 

 median red line running the length of the thorax. This latter crosses, for a short 

 distance, a procurved line of red on the vertex which extends almost to the cephalic 

 border of the eyes. Abdomen red, sometimes mottled with red of a darker shade; 

 opening of dorsal gland indicated by a small dusky spot. Eyes dark reddish; 

 antennae pale, suffused slightly with dusky, paler at the tip of the segments, whole 

 of last segment reddish and slightly swollen. Legs pale, suffused slightly with 

 dusky, tarsi slightly darker. Beak same as legs, extreme tip somewhat darker. 



Stage II (Fig. 2): Length, 1.3 mm.; greatest width of abdomen, .7 mm. 

 Ground color of head and thorax shining dark red, but strongly suffused with black- 

 ish, except the lateral margins, narrowly, of the thorax and a narrow median line 

 which is as in preceding stage. Abdomen shining dark red, opening of dorsal 

 gland indicated by a dusky spot. Eyes dark reddish; antennae, beak and legs 

 about the same as in preceding stage. 



Stage III (Fig. 3): Length, L85 mm.; greatest width of abdomen, .975 mm. 

 Head and thorax now wholly suffused with blackish except for a narrow reddish 

 median line which terminates on the vertex in a procurved line extending towards 

 either eye. Abdomen shining dark red, opening of dorsal gland indicated by a 

 blackish spot. Eyes dark reddish, antennae pale yellowish, slightly grayish 

 distally, terminal segment wholly reddish. Legs pale yellowish washed with 

 grayish, much as in preceding stages; tarsi slightly dusky. Wing-pads just becom- 

 ing apparent on meso- and meta-thorax. 



Stage 71' (Fig. 4): Length, 2.2 mm.; greatest width, across wing-pads, 1.42 

 mm., giving body a very broad appearance. Head and thorax as in preceding stage. 

 First three abdominal segments and a transverse spot on fourth segment on either 

 side of the gland blackish. Rest of abdomen red. Eyes dark reddish. Antennae 

 as in preceding stage. Legs pale yellowish, terminal segment of tarsi suffused with 

 dusky; hind femora Avith two rather faint dusky rings near the tip. Under side of 

 insect dark red; basal segment and extreme tip of beak blackish, remainder slightly 

 tinged with pinkish. Wing-pads extend back to third abdominal segment. 



Stage V (Fig. 5): Length, 2.8 mm.; greatest width, across wing-pads, 1.8 mm. 

 Head and thorax, including wing-pads, now shining black, except for the narrow, 

 red, median line which meets a procurved line of the same color on the head, as in 

 the preceding stages. i\bdomen shining black, hind border of each segment broadly 

 /red. Eyes very dark reddish. First three segments of the antennae, yellowish, 

 :suffused with dusky, especially at center of first segment and at tip and base of 

 •segments two and three; fourth segment red. Legs yellowish, the second segment 

 of the tarsi, tip of tibiae, a band on tibiae, and two more or less distinct bands on 

 femora, dusky. Wing-pads extend back almost to sixth abdominal segment. 



Adult (Fig. 6) — Female: Length, about 5.5 mm.; greatest width, about 2.5 

 mm. Dark red with a broad black stripe extending from hind border of pronotum, 

 but not including scutellum, to tip of wings. A small whitish spot on membrane 

 where it meets tip of cuneus. Dorsum bare, finely punctate. Head shining, not 

 punctate. Front of head with a black median stripe starting about even with 

 antennal tubercles and rimning a short distance onto first segment of beak. Eyes 

 black. Antennae shining black, clothed with fine, short, golden hairs. Legs, 

 except coxae and trochanters, shining black; fore and middle femora with a brownish 



