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Pupa of Oligota oviformis Casey 
Pupa exarate, pale yellow, ovid, about one and one-half times as 
long as wide, not chitinized in any part, without tubercles. Head 
ventrally reflexed so that none of it is visible from above; with a 
single dark eye spot on each side; with two long setae above each 
eye spot. Pronotum hemispherical, wider than long; with a row 
of setae along the anterior margin, the two outer and the middle 
setae distinctly longer than the other six. Elytra each about as long 
as wide, about as long as pronotum, with outer apical angles broadly 
rounded and inner apical angles narrowly rounded. Wings as seen 
from below almost twice as long as elytra. Abdomen apparently 
eight-segmented as viewed along the side margins of the paratergites ; 
segmentation of tergites and sternites indistinct ; segments two through 
seven each with a short seta on each side of side margin; eighth 
segment with a diaphanous bidentate process at apex each tooth of 
which is swollen at tip. 
Three specimens reared from larvae collected at Riverside, River- 
side County, California, 22 April 1975, lemon leaves, Ian Moore 
collector. 
This is the first description of a pupa of a member of this genus. 
Figures 7 and 8. Oligota oviformis, pupa. Fig. 7, dorsal aspect. Fig. 8, 
ventral aspect. 
