INSECT INTRUDERS. 



This insect belongs to the tribe of true 

 Bugs, and it is one of the insects termed 

 Frog-hoppers. It is only the young 

 bugs that have these long cottony 

 filaments sticking out of their backs 

 and as they are gregarious in habits 

 and feed together the cottony mass is 

 thereby explained. This insect is decep- 

 tive in more ways than one since its adult 

 or grown up form has ill-fitting green 

 wings and looks like a moth (p. 127). 



You will have often come across a kind 

 of Dragon-fly-looking insect which is 

 very common during the rains in 

 Northern India, and is perhaps as much 

 an intruder in the bungalow 

 at head-quarters as out in 

 camp since it is often attract- 

 ed into the house by light. 

 It has four large gauzy wings 

 spotted with black and can 

 be distinguished by its short 

 body from the dragon-flies, 

 which never enter the bungalow or very 

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