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July 23, 1894. [Some have cast another skin and are now in the 

 pupa state.] The abdomen is now dark gray, with a tinge of yellow 

 speckled with purplish. Head, thorax, and wing-pads dark purplish 

 brown; head with dark longitudinal streak and three more or less distinct 

 yellowish lines posteriorly; median line of thorax and scutellum and a 

 spot behind scutellum more or less yellow; lateral margin of abdomen 

 yellow. Abdominal tubercles black, with a yellow spot at base in 

 front of dorsal tubercles. Eyes brown; antennae dark reddish, the 

 basal joint purplish and the end of the last yellowish. Ventral side 

 of body, from head to near end of body, creamy yellow with a faint 

 bluish tinge, speckled with crimson. Coxae and trochanters of a pale, 

 transparent bluish green. Anterior and median femora, apex of all 

 tibiae, and the tarsi pale reddish; rest of anterior and median tibiae, 

 and the portion just beyond the flattened basal portion of posterior 

 tibiae whitish, with a slight yellowish or faintly bluish tinge. Poste- 

 rior femora dark purplish; flattened portion of posterior tibiae black, 

 with a whitish spot about the middle near inner edge. The whole 

 insect is covered with a whitish or faintly yellowish, glistening pile; 

 hairs of antennas black; pile of last joint pale. Placed one in alcohol 

 with the others. 



July 27, 1894. One of the specimens changed to the imago state. 

 It is a female. The seed-pod exhibits many black spots caused by the 

 sucking of the insects. 



July 30, 1894. The remaining two pupae died. Placed them with the 

 others in alcohol in the cabinet. Pinned the imago, marked 6296. 



July 22, 1895. Received two specimens from Ch. L. Snyder, Oakton, 

 Virginia, with the statement that they puncture and suck the fruit of 

 his Russian apricots. 



The eggs found on the underside of the leaves are usually 

 fastened along the main rib; they are laid in. a long string, 

 closely joined together and number sometimes over 30 eggs. 

 The single egg is 1.33 mm. long and 1 mm. broad and high, 

 and of a light-brown metallic color; it is slightly rounded, the 

 sides somewhat flattened. The opening, covered by the lid, 

 is on the upper side behind the middle, comparatively large 

 and rounded. 



In regard to the geographical distribution of this species, 

 judging from the localities where specimens have been found, 

 it appears that this species is more confined to the Southern 

 States. However, magnolias grow along the coast from Lou- 

 isiana as far north as Massachusetts, and, while the magnolia 

 is evidently the natural food-plant of this Leptoglossus species, 

 a similar wide range of distribution may be expected. This 

 seems to be approved, as the writer recently had the oppor- 



