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Title: Bulletin Identifier: bulletin9295191012unit Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: United States. Bureau of Entomology Subjects: Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology Publisher: Washington : G. P. O. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: 80 PAPERS ON CEEEAL AND FORAGE INSECTS. plates is a distinct depression forming a sub marginal groove. The caudal segment bears a pair of posteriorly directed spines near posterior margin dorsally and a pair of median anal lobes ventrally. Head, legs, and antennae free. Antennae passing behind first and second pairs of legs and over wing pads. Elytra folded ventrally over the posterior legs. Eyes conspicuous. Pleural margin of abdominal seg- ments bearing mammiform tubercles. Body without hairs or bristles. The adult' (fig. 26) .—More or less shining, elytra not pubescent. Antennae with the third joint scarcely as long as the next two com- bined, fourth joint a little longer than tlie fifth, the latter slightly "longer than the .«ixth, the latter and the seventh equal. Pronotum usually widest at the middle, frequently widest just in front of the middle. Elytra ii-regularly and quite densely muricately punctate, very minutely so on the dorsum, coarser on the sides and apex; from each puncture arises a rather short, stiff, curved, incon- spicuous and semirecum- beut seta. These are not evident on the inflexed sides. Otherwise as in letcheri, but a little more robust. Measurcmenls.—Males: Length, 14.5-16 mm.; width, 5-6.5 mm. Females: Lengthy 15-16 mm.; width, 7.5 mm. Genital characters as in letcheri. Eleodes inmelioides Mann. The egg.—Oval in longitudinal set^tiou and circular in cros.s-section; 1.34 mm. in length and 0.85 mm. in diameter; pure glistening white; without sculpturing of any kind. The larva.—Elongate, cylindrical, convex dorsally, flattened ventrally. Yellowish, first thoracic and eighth abdominal segments brownish, ventral surface paler, anterior and posterior margins of first thoracic and posterior margins and anterior submarginal areas of succeeding segments brown, a distinct pale median vitta; head brownish posteriorly, edge of the mandibles black, base of the mandibles brownish; claws, spines on legs, and caudal segment brown; antennte brownish. Anterior margin of first thoracic segment excavated, posterior margins on all segments except caudal • The description of the adult given herewith is taken from "A Monographic Revision of the Coleop- tera, belonging to the Tenebrionide Tribe Eleodiini, inhabiting the United States, Lower California, and Adjacent Islands," by Frank E. lilaisdell, Sr. Bui. 03, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 13G, 1909.

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 2(1. -False wireworm, Eleodes letcheri vandykei: Adult, ilorsal aspect. Much enlarged. (Original.)

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