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joint much narrower laterally than the penultimate, slightly con- 

 cave, the concavity beset with 6 (3 each side) small, fleshy tubercles, 

 of which the second one on each side is stoutest, those on the external 

 angles bearing each a short spine. Spiracles normally placed and 

 mounted on tubercles. 



Fig. 34.Contarinia pyri- 

 v o r a, fifth antennal segment 

 of male (enlarged, original) 



Pupa. Average length about 3 mm. Head, thorax, legs and 

 wing cases blackish, abdomen yellow. Head and thorax together 

 about as long as the two basal joints of the abdomen. Front of 

 head conical, acute, having each side, close to the eye, a stout spine 

 and two fine hairs dorsally. Another stout, somewhat curved spine 

 arises from the upper angle of the wing cases which reach to the third 

 abdominal joint. Abdomen quite strongly curved, the sutures 

 rather deep, and containing dorsally a somewhat semicircular, 

 scalelike piece, covered with minute retrorse spines; tip unarmed 

 and bluntly rounded. . Exuvium without special significance, the 

 antennal sheaths remaining very much in the normal position." 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae one-half longer than the body, 

 thickly haired, pale yellowish; 14 segments, the fifth with stems 

 each two and one-half times their diameters, circumfili character- 

 istic; terminal segment, basal portion of the stem reduced, the 

 distal enlargement prolonged, broadly fusiform and with a long, 



