C. Strickland 
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The microscopic appearances (see Fig. 1) vvliicli I here give were 
observed on the living larva, and also on some which had been preserved 
in a mixture of rectified spirit 40 “/o and formalin 10 7o- The coloura¬ 
tion of the larva is well preserved in the latter fluid. 
Fig. 1. 
Fig. 3. 
The larva of Lophoscelomijia asiatica. 
Fig. 1. The head and thorax. Fig. 2. A palmate hair. 
Fig. 3. The 4th abdominal segment. 
Structure. 
Head. Glypeal hairs, (i) Anterior. The internal hairs are long, 
stout, and close together, as in members of the Myzorhynchus group, 
and are bifurcate about their middle, (ii) The external hairs are about 
half the length of the internal, stout, projecting forwards and outwards, 
and simple, (iii) Posterior. These hairs are a little longer than the 
external ones and are simple and delicate. 
The frontal hairs are six in number as usual, but only the two 
external ones are branched. The four internal hairs ai-e very delicate. 
