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IV. On the Metamorphoses of two Hemiptera-Heteroptera 

 from Southern China. By J. C. W. Kershaw, 

 F.E.S., and G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. 



[Read February 5th, 1908.] 



PLATES IV, V. 



In the Transactions of this Society for 1907 (Part II) the 

 metamorphoses of Tcssaratoma impillosa were described 

 by Kershaw and Muir. A similar paper by Kershaw 

 and Kirkaldy on those of Dindymus sanguineus and 

 C^nocoris marginatus will appear in the Journal of the 

 Bombay Natural History Society, and the same authors 

 now offer notes on the metamorphoses of Ghrysocoris stollii 

 and Biptortus linearis. 



Ghrysocoris stollii (Wolff). 



This species has, so far as we are aware, been figured 

 previously in the adult state only by Wolff (with his 

 original description) and by Westwood (as Calliclca stoc- 

 herus, in his edition of Donovan's " Insects of China," PI. 

 21, fig. 1 [1842] ). It is distributed rather widely, from India 

 to South China via Burma. It is also recorded from the 

 Nicobars, Formosa and North China. 



The female lays a batch of about a dozen eggs on leaves 

 of many plants, among which the following seem to be 

 the chief — 



Glochidion ohseuricm, Bl. "j 



G. eriocarpum, Champion ^ N. O. Euphorhiaceie. 



G. macrophyllumy Benth. j 



Psychotria elliptica, Ker., N. 0. BiLbiacem. 



The nymphs and adults feed on the fruit of these 

 plants; the newly-hatched nymphs would also accept 

 Lantana berries and banana, though these are probably 

 not their natural food. 



Some females in captivity laid batches of eggs at in- 

 tervals, but without the red markings (presently to be 

 described), and none of these eggs hatched ; there was no 

 male with these females. Similar eggs, however (which 



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