puparium
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This affords a very satisfactory method of mounting, particularly as the different sexes may be brought together on the same bit of pith, or the adult and puparium in Diptera, as shown at Figure 101.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
In about as many more days the puparium state would be entered, and in about six days more the fly or imago would appear.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
The puparium, or pupa case, inclosing the delicate chrysalis, is oval, consisting of eight segments, flattened above, with two large spines near the head, and four on the extremity of the body.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
The second brood of larvæ remains through the winter in the flax-seed, or puparium.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
Cuticle of pupa or puparium splitting longitudinally down the back, to allow escape of imago.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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