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VOL. IV. BROOKLYN, JUNE, 1881. No. 2. 



Description of the Larva of Leistotrophus cingulatus. 



By F. G. Schaupp. 



Form resembling the larva of Staph, maculosus but stouter and shorter. 



Length 1 6 mm. 



Color. Head and thorax dark brown, shining, the abdominal seg- 

 ments dirty grey with two opaque square scutes above and beneath; legs, 

 antennae and palpi light brown, anal fork pale. 



Head sub-quadrate, slightly broader anteriorly, hind angles much 

 rounded; concave above and beneath but depressed towards the front; a- 

 bove near the front densly punctured; front arcuate with four teeth, the 

 two inner simple, the two outer bifid with one strong bristle between each. 



Eyes four on each side. 



Antenna above the eyes, inside of the mandibles, four-jointed, basal 

 joint very short and stout, the second very long and slender, clavate; third 

 joint about two-thirds the length of the second, more slender, a stout 

 bristle about half as long as the joint above the middle, and another 

 much shorter above that; at the inner side of the tip a small bud-like pro- 

 cess; terminal joint one half the length of the second and very slender, 

 with two stout long diverging bristles at tip. 



Mandibles slightly arcuate, without tooth. 



Jfitx/'/Ar, basal joint very short and stout, cardinal joint long and 

 stout with a short stout bristle at the middle of the inner side. And an- 



