EXPLANATION OF PLATE 102. 

 Trogoderma khapra. 



Fig. 1. The egg (X 13). 



Fig. 2. A group of eggs showing the way they are sometimes laid together ( X 6) . 



Fig. 3. An egg a few days' old showing signs of the developing larva inside ( X 13). 



Fig. 4. A freshly emerged larva ( X 26). 



Fig. 5. The larva after >he first moult ( X 26). 



Fig. 6. The larva after the second moult ( X 26). 



Fig. 7. The larva after the tliird moult ( X 23). 



Fig. 8. The larva after the fourth moult ( X 23). 



Fig. 9. The terminal segments of a larva after the fifth moult ( X 23). 



Fig. 10. The pupa of a male beetle still enclosed in the last larval skin. Dorsal 



view ( X 13). 



Fig. 11. The pupa of a female beetle as in Fig. 10 (x 13). 



Fig. 12. The female pupa removed from the larval skin, ventral view ( X 13). 



Fig. 13. T. kJtajmi female ( x 13). 



Fig. 14. T. khapra male ( x 13). 



Fig. 15. Antenna of male beetle. 



Fig. 16. Antenna of female beetle. 



Fig. 17. A larva attacking a wheat grain. 



The small figures by the side of the larger ones indicate the natural sizes of 

 the insects. 



