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Dr Dyar states that the labial plate of the full grown larva is 

 broadly (riangular with coarse teeith at the sides and fine ones 

 near the apex. He states that the regularly tapering, long air tube 



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Fig'. 27 Labial plate of C. cantans 



is fully four times as long as wide, and that the basal pecten on 

 the air tube are distant, the last two spines being large and de- 

 tached, followed by a single hair tuft at about the middle of the 



Fig. 28 Comb of C. cantans 



tube. The comb consists of a patch of about 28 single, thorn- 

 shaped scales which are minutely divided nearly to the base. This 

 description agrees closely with illustrations published by Dr 

 Smith, who represents the comb as containing about 29 scales and 



