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Tibiae bearing an appendage apparently 3-jointed, as a 

 tarsus, and terminated by a curved claw, almost 

 concealed by a large semi-transparent elliptical pul- 

 villus of twice its length; next to last segment lat- 

 erally armed with long hairs ; last ventral terminated 



by an elliptical sucker Myodites solidaginis 



10. -Abdomen squarely truncate behind, not greatly nar- 

 rowed, armed with two long stylets from posterior 

 corners Stylops, Xenos 



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CALIFORNIA MELOE 



a, Triungulin; b, the three triungulin claws; c, antenna of same; d, max- 

 illary palpus; e, labial palpus;/", mandible;^, an abdominal joint; h, imago, 

 female; i, antenna of male. — [After Riley from Packard.] 



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1824. Say, Entomology of North America, II, 162 (Lee. ed., 



1883). 

 1839. Westwood, Insects, vol. I, 291-95. 

 1875. Horn, Notes on the Species of Rhipiphorus of the United 



States, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, V, 121-25. 



1877. Riley, On the Larval Characteristics and Habits of the 



Blister Beetles, First Ann. Rept. Ent. Com., 293-302. 



1878. Riley, Notes on Hornia, Can. Ent., X, 178. 



1878. Riley, On the Life History of Some Blister Beetles, Ent. 



Month. Mag., XIV, 169-75. 



1879. Taschenburg, Familic Blasenkaefer, Afterkaefer, Kaefer, 



91-98. 



1880. Le Conte, Myodites Latr., Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, VIII, 



210-12. 



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