The segmentation of the body is very clear, especially on the abdomen.

The whole body is perfectly smooth, without the least suspicion of hair.
What name are we to give to this initial phase of the Cigale--a phase so strange, so unforeseen, and hitherto unsuspected?
Must I amalgamate some more or less appropriate words of Greek and fabricate a portentous nomenclature?
No, for I feel sure that barbarous alien phrases are only a hindrance to science.

I will call it simply the _primary larva_, as I have done in the case of the Meloides, the Leucospis, and the Anthrax.
The form of the primary larva of the Cigale is eminently adapted to its conditions and facilitates its escape.

The tunnel in which the egg is hatched is very narrow, leaving only just room for passage.

Moreover, the eggs are arranged in a row, not end to end, but partially overlapping.