224 FAMILY VI. — COREIDjE. 



Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico. In economic entomological lit- 

 erature it is known as the "northern leaf-footed plant-bug," 

 and Chittenden (1902, 18) states that in the north it at times 

 becomes quite injurious to melons, squash and cucumbers and 

 that it punctures and sucks the juices of apricots, pears, 

 peaches and other fruits, causing them to become withered and 

 bear scars and markings of injury. It also punctures corn in 

 the milk and tomatoes and in the south is at times injurious to 

 cotton. The eggs are laid in single rows along the stems or 

 leaf ribs of the plants upon which the insects feed. They are 

 bronze-brown and quite similar in structure to those of Brochy- 

 mena quadripustulata (Fabr.), described on p. 99, the young 

 emerging by pushing up a small circular lid or trap door. They 

 hatch in about eight days and the nymphs, casting the skin 

 four times, become adult in from four to five weeks. The wild 

 food plant is as yet unknown, though Garman has taken the 

 nymphs in numbers at Lexington, Ky., on adam's needle. Yucca 

 filamentosa (L.). 



160 (250). Leptoglossus gonagra (Fabricius), 1775, 708. 



Elongate, subparallel. Head reddish-yellow with four black stripes, 

 two wide ones on middle, extending from base to apex and a narrower 

 one each side of eye, the latter extending back onto pronotal flanks ; pro- 

 notum with apical third reddish-brown, this hue bordered behind by a 

 wide curved coarsely punctate yellow line, basal third dark brown to 

 blackish; elytra dark reddish-brown, a small spot on each basal angle 

 and tip of scutellum, basal third of each connexival and usually a cross- 

 bar behind the commissure, dull yellow; membrane dark brown; front 

 and middle legs with femora reddish-brown, blackish beneath, their 

 tibiae each with two yellow rings; hind legs blackish, the middle third of 

 tibiae in part yellow; under surface reddish-yellow with six narrow brown 

 stripes; antennae black, the middle of joint 2, basal half of 3 and apical 

 half of 4 reddish-yellow. Hind femora subclavate, beset above with 

 numerous tubercles, beneath with five or six triangular teeth; outer ex- 

 pansion of tibiae with three smaller teeth, inner one irregularly serrate. 

 Length, 16 — 18 mm. 



Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 10 (U. S. Nat. Mus.). A neotropical 

 species ranging from Florida south to Mexico, Brazil and Ar- 

 gentina. Recorded from Daytona and Cutler, Fla. Easily 

 known by the curved pale cross-bar of pronotum and spines of 

 the humeral angles. The cross-bar of elytra is often reduced 

 to two small spots similar to those on corium in oppositus. 



