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might have that effect. Tlie attention of the orchardist and gardener whose 

 fruits and vegetables are threatened by this insect, should. rather be directed 

 to measures for dcfcndinti directly the' crops endangered. The insects may 

 be caught easily in cool mornings Ijy beating with an insect net the tips of 



Fig. 3. The Tarnished Pl.vnt Bug (Lyguslineolaris, Beauv.): Third stage, magnified.fifieen 

 <liameters. 



the twigs and leaves of the plants in which they usually lie concealed at that 

 ^ time, and may then be readily killed by shaking them out into a bucket con- 

 tiuning a little kerosene, or a film of kerosene on water. They may also be 

 destroyed by sprinkling or dusting the foliage with pyrethrum, or spraying 

 it with diluted kero.sene emulsion. Any and even all these measures of de- 

 fen.se may be used with great profit whenever the insects are numerous 

 enough to threaten any serious damage. 



The Dusky Plant Bug {Denrocoris rajndus, Say). 



Order Hk.mii'TKRA. Family Cap-SID^t:. 



This in.scct h;us not hitherto been suspected of any injury to cultivated 

 vegetation, as far as I can learn, nor has it even been mentioned in the liter- 

 ature of economic entomology. Its occurrence everywhere in strawberry 

 (iold.s hist spring, with the mischievous tarnished plant bug already treated, 

 both in the sjunc ages, stages and situations, and both found only on the fruit, 

 left no room for doubt that thissi)ecies Wius in i)art responsible for the mis- 

 <'hicf aj)jiar('nt. 



The adult is narrowly oval in outline, about one* fourth of an inch (7 mm.) 

 in length, and eh-ven htmdrotlths of an inch wide. The general color is 

 <lii-<ky, tinged with yellow, e.xc(>i)t the head and thorax, which are orange 

 brown. The eyes are red or black; the antennie very long, reaching the tip 



