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4. Body moderately elongated, covered with a long, dark pubescence; abdomen squarely 

 truncated at end, surrounded by five lobes, presenting an eriopterine appearance; 



mentum conspicuously five-toothed Rhamphidaria (p. 830) 



Body very long and slender, glabrous; abdomen surrounded by four narrow, glabrous 

 lobes; mentum indistinctly five-toothed Dicranoptycharia (p. 828) 



Pupae 



1. Pronotal breathing horns branched; forms entirely aquatic Antocharia (p. 799) 



Pronotal breathing horns simple 2 



2. Pronotal breathing horns very tiny, microscopic, conical Dicranoptycharia (p. 828) 



Pronotal breathing horns large, conspicuous 3 



3. Pronotal breathing horns large, earlike, contiguous basally; forms aquatic, in silken 



cocoons Ellipteraria (p. 806) 



Pronotal breathing horns not contiguous basally 4 



4. Cephalic crest small or lacking; pronotal breathing horns short and broad, rarely elongated; 



a pair of small spiracles on dorsum of eighth abdominal segment. . .Limnobaria (p. 808) 

 Cephalic crest large, setiferous; pronotal breathing horns long and slender, cylindrical; 

 a pair of large spiracles on dorsum of eighth abdominal segment. 



Rhamphidaria (p. 830) 



The most important literature on the tribe Limnobiini is as follows : 



Antocha saxicola General Needham, 1908a: 205. 



Antocha sp Larva Malloch, 1915-17 b: 236-237. 



Elliptera omissa Larva, pupa, general. . . Mik, 1886 b. 



Elliptera omissa Larva, pupa Griinberg, 1910:31-32. (Copy.) 



Elliptera omissa Larva, pupa Malloch, 19 15-17 b: 226-227. 



Thaumastoptera calcezti Larva, pupa, general. . . Lenz, 1920a. 



Limnobia quadrimaculata General Von Roser, 1834 (as annulus). 



Limnobia quadrimaculata Larva, pupa Beling, 1873b: 590-591 (as annu- 

 lus}. 



Limnobia bifasciata Larva, pupa, general. . .. Bremi-Wolf, 1846 (as xanthop- 



terd). 



Limnobia bifasciata Larva, pupa, general. . . Paste jrfk, 1909 (as xanthopterd) . 



Limnobia bifasciata Larva, pupa De Meijere, 1916: 198-201. 



Limnobia decemmaculata General Loew> 1873:41. 



Limnobia decemmaculata General Verrall, 1912. 



Limnobia flavipes Larva. Beling, 1886: 202. 



Limnobia inuskt General Beling, 1886: 202 (as macro- 

 stigma). 



Limnobia sexpunctata Larva Beling, 1879:54-55 (as nigro- 



punctata). 



Limnobia nubeculosa General Beling, 1879:56. 



Limnobia obscuricornis. . Larva, pupa Beling, 1879: 55-56. 



Limnobia tripunctata Larva, pupa Beling, 1873 b: 591-592. 



Limnobia triocellata Larva, pupa, general. . . Johnson, 1906:2. 



Limnobia triocellata Larva, pupa Malloch, 19 15-17 b: 215-216. 



Limnobia immatura Pupa. . Malloch, 1915-17 b: 216. 



Libnotes perkinsi General Perkins, 1913: clxxxii (as Limno- 

 bia). 



Discobola caesarea Pupa Mik, 1884. 



Dicranomyia trinotata Larva, pupa Thienemann, 1909. 



Dicranomyia trinotata Larva, pupa Griinberg, 1910:29. (Copy.) 



Dicranomyia dumetorum General Winnertz, 1853. 



