554 Mr. C. L. Withycombe's Notes on 



deciduous forests, also in gardens even on small plants. 

 Imagines may be taken all tlie year round, since it is in 

 the adult state that winter is passed. There are at least 

 two broods each year. 



Eggs are laid in May, June and July, and again in July 

 and August constituting the second brood. The egg is very 

 like that of C. tenella, and, except for the manner of laying, 

 might be mistaken for that species. It is 'S-'Q mm. long, 

 pale green in colour, and borne at the extremity of a short 

 stalk 3-3-5 mm. long. As a rule it is attached to the under- 

 side of a leaf, and not, as in tenella, at the edge. I have, 

 however, only seen eggs laid in captivity, under as natural 

 conditions as could be given. The eggs were laid singly, 

 or in well-spaced clusters of three or four. In a few days 

 they became greyish, and just before hatching, pale biscuit- 

 coloured. 



The young larva is at first about 1-3 mm. long, white, 

 with ill-defined, pale buff-coloured transverse lines on the 

 body. In a few hours the head exhibits two fine diverging 

 lines running from behind forward to the points of insertion 

 of the antennae. 



In the second instar the head markings have assumed 

 their final pattern. The body is cream-coloured ^ with a 

 pair of latero-dorsal chocolate-coloured bands running its 

 entire length, as in the third instar-larva. Laterally there 

 are two faint longitudinal chocolate-coloured lines on each 

 side. On the wdiole there is very little difference between 

 second- and third-instar larvae. 



Description of Third-instar Larva. (Plate XLI, fig. 2.) 



Length about 7 mm. when full grov/n. Colour, cream or yellow, 

 with a pair of latero-dorsal chocolate-coloured bands running the 

 whole length of the body. Setigerous warts not much developed. 

 In form and coloration intermediate between fava and tenella. 



Head white or pale yellow, with dark brown markings, consisting 

 of two diverging lines running from the base forward to the points 

 of insertion of the antennae and jaws. Posteriorly these are broader 

 and tend to spread laterally. In the middle of anterior margin of 

 head are two dots, and about the centre of the dorsal surface two 

 more dots. These are evidently traces of the parallel lines, which 

 in most Chrysopids run from the m.iddle to the anterior margin of 

 the head. Laterally, the head is fuscous, sometimes as two faint 

 lines above and below each eye. Eyes black; antennae and palpi 

 dark brown ; jaws castaneous, darker at tips. 



