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Figure 15. Pupa: ventral (V), lateral (L), and dorsal (D), views. Scale = 2 mm. 
completed theirs in 84, 88,90, and 96 days and thus emerged as adults 
at the same time as the next brood. 
All six adults eclosed during late afternoon. 
Broods 
Egg batches were first observed in May; additional batches 
appeared at intervals of about six weeks. Apparently there are several 
synchronous broods per wet season on BCI. 
Parasites 
A larva (Lot 80-77) collected 22 July 1980 was eaten by the larva of 
a tachinid fly. The fly larva formed a puparium inside the skin of its 
host on 27 July, and eclosed from the head end of the host skin on 15 
August 1980. 
Four eggs were parasitized by wasps (unidentified) less than 1 mm 
long. 
Acknowledgements 
I would like to thank the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 
Panama, for use of their facilities. Dr. Paul Whalley of the British 
