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Lately eggs of the species Lygidea mendax and Hetero- 

 cordylus malinus have been described by G. R. Crosby, 1 found 

 on the leaves of the apple. The egg is rather strongly curved, 

 slightly compressed, and dull whitish in color. 



The representative of the family Cimicidae is the worldwide- 

 known Cimex lectularius. Leuckart in his account of the 

 bedbug has proved, by the existence of chorial processes ar- 

 ranged on the inner side of rim, that the Cimicidae belong to 

 the group of the Reduviidae. They are laid in concealed 

 places in heaps of 6 to 50 eggs, color clearly white; termi- 

 nated by a cap; chorion somewhat coarsely hexagonal; chan- 

 nel-shaped chorial processes. 



In recent years several American authors 2 have given the 

 life history of species of this family and have also described 

 and figured the eggs. 



Acanthia {H&mato siphon) indora. The egg was first de- 

 scribed and figured by Duges. Later described by Osborn 3 in 

 his publication on "Insects affecting domestic animals." The 

 eggs of this species are also mentioned by C. H. Tyler Town- 

 send 4 in his "Note on the coruco, a hemipterous insect." 



Cimex (=(Eciacn-s'} hirundinus. Eggs are figured origi- 

 nally by Lugger in his Sixth Annual Report, Division of 

 Entomology, Minnesota, 1900, page 50. 



About the eggs of the Family Anthocoridae we are not yet 

 sufficiently informed. The family is considered by Renter 

 and other authors as being allied to the group of the Redu- 

 viidae. The egg of J^riphleps insidiosus' is figured in Folsom's 

 Entomology. According to the illustration, the egg has a 

 strong resemblance to the egg of Cimex. (PI. XII, fig. 6. ) 



Eggs of the aquatic and semi-aquatic species of Hemiptera 

 are ovate or more or less elongate. According to Prof. O. M. 

 Renter 6 these eggs of the aquatics have no apical cap, and 

 at the upper egg-pole centrally two or more chorial processes. 



1 C. R. Crosby, Notes on the life-history of two species of Capsida?, 

 Can. Ent, 1911, p. 17. 



2 O. Lugger, Sixth Ann. Rep. University Minnesota Agr. Exp. Sta., 

 1900; L. O. Howard, Insect book, 1901, p. 289; C. L. Marlatt, Bull. 4, 

 n. ser., Div. Ent., Dept. Agr,; J. B. Smith, N. Jersey Agr. Exp. Sta., 

 WOT, p. 20; C. V. Riley, Insect Life, n, p. 105, (1889-90) ; A. Girault, 

 Psyche, 1905, p. 61; 1. c., p. 117. 



3 H. Osborn, Bull. 5, n. s., U. S. Dept. of Agr., Div. Ent. 1896. 



4 C. H. Tyler Townsend, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. Hi, No. 1, 

 1894, p. 40. 



5 Folsom's Entomology, p. 159, fig. 207 (1906). 



6 O. M. Reuter, Phylogenie and Systematik der Miriden, 1910, pp. 

 35, 60. (Act. Soc. Scie. Fenn., XXXVII, 3.) 



