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423(J.Doll)
On [[orange?]]
An Oiketicus sent to B.N in abundant examples from Guadalajara ? Mexico
[[underlined]]Calc.[[underlined]] 2.61 3.07 3.61 4.25 5.0 5.9 mt.85
[[underlined]]Found[[underlined]] 2.5, 2.6 Guadalajara, Mex.
3.0, 3.0, 3.2, 3.2
3.5, 3.55, 3.6 (5), 3.7 (4), 3.75 (2), 3.8 (6)
4.1, 4.15 (2), 4.2 (5), 4.25, 4.3 (2), 4.4 (2)
5.0, 5.4 6.0, 6.4 (39 larvae)
All 5 stages essentially alike except in size. Hd round, full, rather wider than high, clypeus large [[image - triangle]]; chitinous covering of head not extending far back at vertex, [[strikethrough]] forming a [[median indentation?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] especially near [[overwritten] at [[/overwritten]] [[median?]] suture [[/insertion]] where it is indented by the fleshy back. Sutures not impressed. Faintly grannular or shagreened, shining; a few dark setae from the lower part. ground sordid white but thickly covered with elongate 2 rounded [[image - triangle]] brown-black spots, especially along the suture & over the sides. Labrum & basal joint of antennae [[end page]]

[[start page]] white. Hd. slightly retracted below 2. Body round flattened; with double [[undulate?]] s-v ridge & slight superstig line. Tho feet large, [[?]] with distinct claw. Abd. feet flattened, very short, undulating but with a [[?]] shaped row of distinct radiating brown crotchet around a central depression. Feet on 7-10, 13, the last pair rather longer. 2d. to below spiracle covered by a single large c-Sh. On 3 a similar one with a fold at spiracular region. On 4 [[two?]] plates, separated at the dorsal line, rounded post, reaching to the stigmatal region. A large [[image - lopsided rectangle]] anal plate on 13. Tho. plates sordid white, marked with black blotches forming s-d & lateral bands. Body sordid blackish brown, abd. feet pale. Tho feet & anal plates brown-black. Rather long but fine pale setae arise singly from minute tubercles & on tho. feet. [[circled]] 1 [[/circled]] s-d middle, [[circled]] 2 [[/circled]] lat, little [[cont.?]] [[circled]] 3 [[/circled]] super stig. & 2 on the s-v ridges. So fine can't see them Spiracles reddish brown. Body of nearly even width.