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Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910. 



The shields , head and legs are smooth and finely porate ; the 

 remainder skin is finely wrinkled. 



', " Dorsal side (Fig. 7). There is but one, anterior dorsal, 

 shield ; it is elongate , almost equal in width throughout , yet 

 slightly constricted in the middle, anteriorly and posteriorly with 

 straight edges. H a i r s. Vertical hairs close together, reaching 



tips of mandibles, very fine. 

 Prosomatic hairs outside of 

 posterior end of shield ; short 

 ones minute ; long ones as 

 long as the shield. A little 

 more backward and near the 

 lateral edge of the body a 

 pair of short hairs. At the 

 level of femora III near the 

 lateral edge of the body a 

 pair of ditto. Quite on the 

 posterior edge of the abdomen 

 a pair of trailing hairs twice 

 longer than the width of 

 the body. 



Ventral side (Fig. 8). 

 Epimera I widely apart 

 from each other. Epimera II 

 widely separate from epi- 

 mera I, as long as these and 

 parallel to them. Epimera III 

 short , rodlike , convergent 

 forwardly. — Shields. 

 There is a pair of small 

 triangulär extracoxal shields III. — Hairs. Inside of the 

 proximal half of epimera II a pair of short hairs. On the extra- 

 coxal plates III the two lateral hairs ; the longer one longer than 

 the width of the body and quite on the edge of the body ; the 

 shorter one a little longer than epimera III , more inwardly and 

 slightly forwardly. — Anus terminal. 

 Mandibles (Fig. 7) normal. 



Maxillae with two long maxillar hairs close to the begin- 

 ning of the palpi (Fig. 8) , and two interior point - shaped 

 chitinisations behind these hairs (attachments of musculi flexores 

 capitis). Tibia with dorsal and ventral hair. Tarsus with dorsal 

 hair and ventral olfactoric hair. 



Legs (Fig. 7). The genu and tibia I and II already show 

 the ventral and outer triangulär outgrow of the adults. Legs I: 



Fig. 7—8. 

 Megninia pavonis Oudms. 



Larva. 



