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giving up tlic life histories i)f the two species of saldids I was rearing, 

 so phicing all the little glasses containing them in a covered basket, 

 I took them with me. No doubt the people on the train thought I 

 was taking a lunch with me, or perhaps a pet dog or cat! I wonder 

 how many ladies would have slept well that night had they known 

 that the basket contained live bugs! 



In all the rearings I fed dead flies and other soft-bodied insects,, 

 chiefly mirids (capsids) and cicadellids (jassids), as these were 

 usually easier to obtain in large numbers either by sweeping or at 

 the light at night. 



DESCRIPTION OF STAGES. 



See Plate XXXV. 

 THE EGG. 



Size. Length about .6 mm.; width, .15 mm. 



Color. Clear, creamy-white when tirst laid, changing to yellow. Duration 

 of egg stage. 8 to 10 days. 



Shape. Elongate-cylindrical; one end broadly rounded and considerably 

 larger than the other end. Dorsal jiart arched. 



FIRST INSTAR. 



Size. Length of body about .8 mm.; width of abdomen at widest part, 

 .4 mm. 



Color. Greenish brown with dark spot on the dorsum of abdomen along 

 median line. 



Structural peculiarities. Mostly head, with large, reddish eyes; four-seg- 

 mented slender antennae, fourth segment stouter than the others. Duration of 

 first instar, four days. 



SECOND INSTAR. 



Size. Length, 1. mm.; width, .6 mm. 



Color. Light green with eyes and antennse dark reddish brown. Dark spot 

 on the dorsum of abdomen. 



Shape. Much the same as first instar only stouter. Duration of instar, 

 three days. 



THIRD INST.AR. 



Size. Length, 1.5 mm.; width, .8 mm. 



Color. Head and thorax yellowish; third and fourth abdominal segments 

 dark green with spot on the dorsum orange yellow; remainder of abdomen 

 yellowish green. Eyes and tip of antennae dark brown. 



Structural peculiarities. Tarsi segmented as in all the other instars; rostrum 

 reaching to the posterior coxae. Duration of third instar, three days. 



FOLTRTH INSTAR. 



Size. Length of body, 2 mm.; width of abdomen, 1.2 mm. 



Color. Grayish flecked with brown. 



Shape. Nymph much stouter than in the third instar. and wing pads reach- 

 ing to the base of the second abdominal segment. Beak reaching to the apex 

 of the posterior coxae. Duration of fourth instar, 3 days. 



