716 MR. P. R. AWATI ON THE MECHANISM 
stylets (and not to the levers), and at the other to the maxillary 
sclerite. It has been shown above that the latter is nothing but 
the maxillary plate, the second half of the embryonic maxilla. 
(+) The Retractors of the Stylets. (Text-figs. 16, 19, 21.) 
These are attached to the sides of the mandibles and the 
maxillary stylets just below the retort-shaped organs at one end, 
and to the posterior walls of the head at the other. The stylets 
show peg-shaped structures for the attachment of the muscles 
Text-figure 25. 
Md. — 
= ae 
Refer to pp.l2. 
Lygus pabulinus. 
Transverse section of a petiole, showing the maxillary stylets forward and the 
mandibles behind, one of the hooks (*) of the latter being attached to the 
cellular wall. Immersion lens & Oc. 4. 
For explanation of the lettering see p. 693. 
