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spending their immature stages in this habitat, where they are associated 
with a remarkable fauna of other organisms. The adult females have 
the valves of the ovipositor greatly elongated, and the writer has sug- 
gested elsewhere that this may be an adaptation for laying the eggs in 
this habitat. 7. bromeliadicola was reared in Costa Rica by Picado, 
whose important paper (Picado, 1913) on the bromeliaceous epiphytes 
contains colored figures of the larva, the pupa, and the adult. From 
this paper it is seen that the larva (page 356, figure A, and plate 13, 
fieure 4, of reference cited) is not unlike that of 7’. pennipes, described 
above, the four prominent anal gills of 7’. bromeliadicola (Plate LX XVIII, 
420, of this paper) being a notable feature in common, altho here the 
constrictions are very numerous, there being twenty-five or thirty shown 
in the figure. The pupa (Picado, 1913:357, fig. 51, and pl. 13, fig. 2) 
has the pronotal breathing horns (Plate LX XVIII, 421, of this paper) 
approximated on the median line, and the sheaths of the ovipositor (Plate 
LXXVIII, 423) greatly elongated to contain the elongated terebra of the 
adult within. According to Keilin (1913), the tegumentary glands of this 
larva are a provision against drought, which is the great source of danger 
to organisms living in this habitat. 
Trentepohlia (Paramongoma) leucoxena (Alex.) 
1915 Mongoma leucozena Alex. Ent. News, vol. 26, p. 29-30. 
Trentepohlia leucovena was reared by Knab in Mexico, from larvae 
found living in bromeliaceous plants quite as in the preceding species. 
Genus Teucholabis Osten Sacken (Gr. weapons + forceps) 
1859 Teucholabis O.S. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 222. 
Larva.— Form elongate, slender, terete. Body practically destitute of pubescence and 
setae. Spiracular disk surrounded by three very broad lobes, a flattened ventral lobe and 
two shorter lateral lobes at the base of which are the small black spiracles. Gills four, 
bluntly rounded and developed for propulsion. Head capsule of four elongate, slender rods 
or plates, interno-lateral pair forked at about midlength. Mandible rather small, with about 
three blunt lateral teeth. Antenna elongate, two-segmented. 
Pupa.— Cephalic crest setiferous. Pronotal breathing horns short, blunt, closely applied 
to thorax. Mesonotum precipitous, at crest with two powerful hooks and smaller serrated 
plates near shoulder. Wing sheaths reaching end of second abdominal segment. Leg 
sheaths reaching end of fourth abdominal segment, middle tarsi the shortest. Abdomen 
with a transverse row of setae before ends of segments. 
