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The ova, are very similar in form to those of Mymius, 

 "Kidney bean shaped," that is, oval in protile, a little smaller 

 at the micropyle end than at the other, subconstricted medially 

 above. The micropyle end is obliquely truncate, one micropyle 

 being on this truncate part, the other on the concave venter. 

 The microples are similar to those of Myrmus, but the 

 dorsoposterior apparatus in Myrmus, figured by Leuckart, is 

 apparently not present in Bhopaliis. 



Colour testaceous, the vermilion-sanguineous embryo 

 showing through and colouring the whole egg, (Micropyle col- 

 ourless) ; when nearly ready for hatching they become dark 

 crimson. They are deposited with the concave part downward, 

 mostly on the involucres of the Sonchus. If undisturbed, the 

 average number is 20 to 25 in each batch, but the same female 

 lays more than one batch and recopulates after oviposition. 

 Length a little less than one millimetre. 



They hatch in about 6-7 days and the adult state is reached 

 in 13-16 more. 



The nymphal instars are remarkable for the gradual change 

 of colour from blood-red in the first, to greenish-testaceous in 

 the fifth. 



First instar. The colour on hatching is pale sangineous, 

 the head and nota darken in a little while and the whole bug 

 darkens in a day or so. The bug is elongate, oval and flexible, 

 two and four-fifths as long as the maximum width. The anten- 

 nae are inserted on a line from the eye to the base of the 

 labrum and are twice as long as the head in profile, their 

 respective proportions being 6, 10, 11, 19; the first three are 

 cylindric, the fourth slightly fusiform. The thorax and abdo- 

 men together are 3 2-3 longer than the head. The body and 

 legs are furnished sparsely with dark bristly hairs. The eyes 

 are not nearly contiguous with the pronotum. The labium 

 reaches practically to the apex of the abdomen, or at least 

 beyond the middle, its proportions being 12, 13, 12, 19. Width 

 of head with eyes a trifle more than that of the pronotum. The 

 legs are articulated almost at the lateral margins of the thorax 

 and are widely distant. The second segment of the hind tarsi 

 is twice as long as the first, scarcely so much in the fore and 

 middle pairs. Arolia free, extending to about half the length 

 of the claws, of which there are two on each tarsus, acuminate 

 and slightly curved. Odoriferous orifices very small, trans- 

 verse oval, situated on the apical margin of the fourth and fifth 

 tergites. 



