A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 799 



Tomato Leaf -bug. (Mbrmidia lugens (Fab.) Stal.) Howard, Insect 

 Book, pi. xxxi, figs. 3, 4. 



Mi*. Geo. A. Bishop, in a recent letter, states that this insect is 

 injurious to the tomato-plant and beans. Common in U. States, 

 Mexico, and W. Indies. 



Capslds. The small Leaf -bug figured (Lygus, pi. xcix, fig. IT, d) 

 is pale green with a greenish yellow head, and an obscure, oblique 

 brownish spot near the base of the fore wings, and some ill-defined 

 spots of the same at the tip. Length, 5 mm . 



Orthops, sp., t. Heidemann. 



Mr. Geo. A. Bishop writes that this bug does considerable damage 

 to peaches by puncturing the surface with its proboscis. 



Tarnished Plant-bug. (Lygus />r«£e»s/s (L.) var.=X. lineolaris 

 P.-Beauv.; Saunders, Ins. Injur, to Fruit, p. 14V, fig. 155. 

 Figure 174. 



This species was sent by Mr. Mowbray in October. In the United 

 States it is injurious to strawberries, fruit trees, etc. Head, between 

 eyes, yellowish, with three narrow black lines convergent backward ; 

 prothorax dull brown, varied with blackish and yellow and narrowly 

 edged with yellow ; about six alternating, black and yellow, ill- 

 defined, small, divergent spots ; scutellum acute, larger than broad, 

 with dark brown and chestnut or yellowish brown convergent mark- 

 ings ; thickened part of front wings dark brown varied with chest- 

 nut, and terminated by a yellow spot ; membranous part dusky 

 gray ; abdomen blackish below, with a lunate yellow spot on each 

 side ; legs chestnut, banded with black ; antennae black. Length, 

 4.75 mm . Identified by Mr. O. Heidemann. 



Trigonotylus rnficornis (Fall.) Fieber, Europ. Hemip., 243; Uhler, 

 in Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey Terr., iii, No. 2, p. 413. 



A small, slender bug, 5 mm long. Thorax and abdomen, above and 

 below, light greenish, with a geminate, dusky, median dorsal line on 

 the thorax ; fore wings yellowish at base, membrane purplish white ; 

 legs pale drab ; antenna? long, pale lilac. Identified by Mr. O. 

 Heidemann. October, L. Mowbray. Europe and North America. 

 Denver, Col., Uhler. 



The family Berytidm (Stilt-bugs) is represented by a single slender- 

 legged species (Corizus hyalinus), recorded by Jones, 1876. In the 

 United States it ranges westward at least as far as Colorado. 



