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Procryptocerus striata scabriuscula Emery 
Length (through spiracles) about 5.2 mm. Similar to P. adlerzi 
except as follows. Body stouter. Integument of venter of anterior 
somites and dorsa of posterior somites with minute spinules in short 
transverse rows. Body hairs (1) 0.003-0. 19 mm long, spike-like; 
(2) 0.013-0.05 mm long, very few on each somite. Cranium trans- 
versely subelliptical. Head hairs few. Lab rum with six hairs and 
six isolated and two clusters of three sensilla each on the anterior 
surface; posterior surface with six isolated and two clusters of two 
or three sensilla each and with minute spinules in short arcuate rows, 
the rows forming a reticulate pattern. Mandibles quadrilateral, 
heavily sclerotized, with all teeth straight and round-pointed. Each 
maxillary palp an ungula, with two apical and three lateral sensilla; 
each galea a very short stout peg with two apical sensilla. (Material 
studied: nine larvae from Mexico, courtesy of Roy R. Snelling.) 
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