

OF THE 



•rooklgu ^tttomological $»tuty. 



VOL. IV. BROOKLYN, NOV. & DEC, 1881. Nos. 7. & 8. 



Description of the larva of Necrophorus 



tomentosus, Web. 



By F. G. Schaupp. 



Length offullgrown larva; 22 mm. breadth 5 mm. 



Form elongate, sub-cylihdrical, tapering towards each end. 



Color. Head red-brown; tergal scutes and legs brown; abdomen 

 white. 



H:ad triangular; broader than long; anteriorly narrower; hind an- 

 gles broadly rounded; posterior margin sinuate, anterior arcuate; convex 

 above, somewhat flat beneath. Eyes scarcely distinct. 



Antenna four-jointed, rising at the sides of the head a little before the 

 middle; longer than the mandibles; first joint very short, conical, trun- 

 cate at tip; second elongate, sub-cylindrical, three times longer than the 

 first; third as long as the second, clavate with a bristle at the inner side 

 of tip; the terminal joint slender, nearly as long-as the second with two 

 bristles. 



Mandibles short and stout, multidentate, slightly arcuate, constricted 

 at the middle. 



Maxilla very stout; first joint one half shorter than the second, the 

 second is truncate at tip, covered by a hairy plate, at the inner side there 

 is a connate lobe? and at the outer side near the middle a four-jointed pal- 

 pus, first and second joints short and stout, nearly of equal length; the 

 third clavate, longer than the second, fourth slender as long as the second. 



