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green Chrysopa, but may be found in cotton fields generally in the 
plains. 
Chrysopince .—The antennae filiform. One species of this group 
is common throughout the plains, a delicate green insect with shining 
Fig. 76.— Chrysopa larva, with its covering of skins. 
(F. M. H.). 
eyes which diffuses an unpleasant odour on being handled. Here and 
there about the fields one sees little clusters of white eggs, each egg on a 
separate long slender stalk. (A Himalayan species lays the eggs so 
close together that the individual stalks coalesce and one finds a little 
bunch of eggs on a compound stalk). The clusters are everywhere, 
Fig. 77.— Eggs of ohrysopa 
