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Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XXIV, 



LARVAE. 



A single specimen from Talewadi, near 



N. Kanara District 



Text-fig. i. — Ascalaphid 

 larva from Talewadi, Castle 

 Rock, N. Kanara Dist. 



Castle Rock, 



Bombay Pres. (coll. S. W. Kemp), almost 



certainly the larva of Glyptobasis denti- 



fera which species was common in the 



same neighbourhood (Fig. I.) 



Head quadrate, deeply fissured in 

 front, coated with very short fine bristles 

 and pigmented darkly save for a pale 

 fascia which begins at the mid-line on a 

 level with the eyes and runs out and 

 backwards. Eyes deeply pigmented and 

 furnished with a small chitinous horn- 

 like process antero-laterally. Maxillae 

 long and curved inward at a right angle 

 near the tips. They are furnished with 

 short spines of which three are much 

 longer than the rest ; of these latter, 

 the two anterior are close together and 

 the middle one longer than the two 

 others. 



Prothorax very short and rather hid- 

 den, with no definite tubercles on the 

 outer side. 



The remainder of the body-segment 

 furnished laterally with twelve stout 



spines all of which are beset with short, stiff setae. This arma- 

 ture forms an impassable rampart around the insect which serves 



to protect it from the attacks of ants, 



and is closely analagous to that found 



in various larva^ of Etithalia. The 



presence of these spu;?s serves readily 



to distinguish the larvae from those 



of Myrmeleonidae which otherwise 



are closely similar in form and some- 

 times size. 



I.egs short and slim and entirely 



hidden beneath the body. 



With the exception of the last 



segment, the final seven are deeply 



pigmented as far inward as the sub- 



iorsum, including the stout spines. 

 2. A single specimen from Janakh- 



mukh, Abor country, 600 ft., 29'xir 



1911 (coll. S. W. Kemp). Species? 



(Fig. 2.) 



Generally similar to the last in 



shape but differing as follows: — The 



maxillae are rather shorter and more 



robust and deeply pigmented. The 



Text-fig. 2.- 

 larva from [anal 

 country. 



• Ascalaphid 

 imukh, Abor 



