Descriptions of larvae, 1883-1890
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Sphida obliqua ? In pickerel weed. Hardly separable from the above average smaller with a tinge of olive green. A hundred found Sep 10-20 also in burr reed. Same anatomy (curious arrangement of ladder like tracheae) Eats in leaf stems and plant stems: might have found hundreds.