NEUROPTERA; RHYNCHOI \ 469 



\l-.l R< >PTERA 

 CHRYS< H'lD 1 

 CHRYSOPA Spp. 

 PLATE XLV.) 

 Clirysopa, Lefroy, In. I. Ins. Pests. P . 273. ff. 332, 334, 336, $37 j 

 [nd. Ins. Life, pp. 154 [56, IV. 76 80. 



Distribution. — Throughoul the Plains of Southern India. 

 Lifehistory. The eggs, which are erected on the apex of long 

 slender stalks, arc laid in small (lusters on leaves, twigs, etc. The 

 larva is predaceous on Aphids which it sucks dry and (in some 

 species) then places the empty skins on its back where thej are 

 retained by long curved spines (see Plate). The larvae are active 

 and voracious and destroy large numbers of Aphids. After feeding 

 for about a week they form a rounded cocoon inside which the 

 pupal period is passed. 



Food.- Aphids, especially on cotton and cholam. 

 Status. — Extremely beneficial. 



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PENTATOME 



COPTOSOMA CRIBRARIA, Kb. 



Cimex cribrarius. Fab., Km. Syst. Suppl., p. 531 (1798). 

 Coptosoma cribrarium. Distant. Faun. Ind. Rhyn., I, 22-23, f. 11 ; 



1.' frov, Ind. Ins. Life. p. 672. 



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.. 345. — Coptosoma cribraria. The small outline figure shows the 



n. it ur 



Distribution. -Throughout Southern India. 



Lifehistory.— The creamy-white elong ire laid in bat- 



ches of about 35 eggs arranged in two rows, their bases being 

 opposed. The young bug emerges by pushing open the lid with 

 which the egg is provided ; it is about '75 nim - long, shining orange 

 in colour with red eyes. In their younger -tages they an 

 rious but later on separate, living on the foodplant all their lives. 



