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Psyche 
[June- August 
THE EGG. 
Length 1 . 2 mm. ; width at middle . 8 mm. ; thickness at 
middle .425 mm. 
Color, light red, smooth, moderately shining; viewed dor- 
sally oval, narrowing towards the cap; flattened ventrally for 
a half to three fourths of its surface where it adheres to the fungus, 
the cap somewhat raised; cap not prominent, chorial processes 
ten in number, placed in a circle about the cap, minute, cup- 
shaped, raised but little above the chorion, a white hemispherical 
protuberance sometimes protrudes from the apex. 
THE FIRST INSTAR NYMPH. 
Length 1.2 mm.; width .7 mm. Color light red, the legs 
lighter, nearly cream color, femura lighter red, apical joint of 
antennae and eyes dark; general aspect of body flattened; head 
with a groove rising before each eye, curving towards the Pos- 
terior line of the head, which it nearly attains, and somewhat 
towards the median line; eyes moderately prominent; beak 
scarcely reaching the anterior edge of the third ventral segment; 
antennae one third the length of the body, 4-jointed, apical joint 
widest, as long as the third and fourth together, minutely and 
sparsely tuberculate, apically bearing a few very minute hairs; 
thorax slightly wider than eyes; abdomen evenly rounded at 
the sides, a third longer than the thorax and somewhat broader; 
edge of the thorax and abdomen foliaceous. 
