EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXIV. 



MYTILASPIS POMOEUM. (Page 194.) 







Figs. 1, 2. Female insects, natural size, '/// *ihi on 



branch of apple. 

 Fig. 3. Puparium of young adult female (dorsal), x 



15. 



4. Puparia of adult female (ventral) disclosing, in 



the upper figure, the shrivelled but still living 

 female at the anterior extremity, with tin- 

 eggs almost filling the puparium beneath Lrr. 

 In the lower figure the larvae have escaped, 

 leaving the white effete skins behind, and the 

 dead female remaining at the narrow ex- 

 tremity as a dull brownish shrivelled body 

 scarcely visible to the naked eye. x 15. 



5. Puparium of female (ventral) disclosing the 



female at period of gestation. x 20. 



6. Puparium of second- stage female at period of 



fecundation, x 15. 



7. Puparium of male, x 15. 



8. Male, x 35. 



9. Pupa (dorsal), x 40. 



10. Pupa (ventral), x 40. 



11. Larva, greatly magnified, x 50. 



