250 FAMILY VI. — coreid;e. 



Common throughout Indiana, January — December. Holland, 

 Mich., June 10. Occurs in summer in gardens and fields where 

 squashes and other cucurbs are grown, and hibernates beneath 

 rubbish and loose bark of logs and snags. Often a score or 

 more will be found occupying a space a foot square beneath 

 the bark. Many of them die before spring, especially if the 

 winter is an open one with alternate freezing and thawing, but 

 there are always plenty left for "seed." They have been 

 found in winter a mile or more away from any spot where 

 squash or kindred plant was grown the season before, thus 

 showing that distance does not deter them from securing a 

 hibernaculum to their liking. 



Dunedin, Fla., March 20 — 27, scarce. Recorded from a half 

 dozen stations from Jacksonville to Big Pine Key, and doubt- 

 less occurs in all the cultivated regions of the State, but ap- 

 parently much less common than in the north. Ranges from 

 Quebec and New England to the Pacific, and south and south- 

 west to Arizona, Mexico and Brazil. This is the "squash-bug" 

 of economic literature, and being the most common, most in- 

 jurious and best known species of Coreidae, that name has been 

 adopted as the common or typical one for the family. Its 

 habits, life history, distribution and remedies for riddance are 

 fully set forth in various economic documents, chief among 

 which are those of Chittenden (1899, 1908). Uhler (1876, 293) 

 says that : "In the larval stage they are often guilty of canni- 

 balism, the stronger ones sucking the juices of the weaker, and 

 leaving only their dried empty skins to attest their places 

 upon the squash vines." The Coir its ordinatus Say (II, 244) is 

 a synonym. He says that "when taken it diffuses an odor 

 which has been compared to that of a ripe pear." 



181 (303). Anasa andresii (Guerin), 1857, 383. 



Elongate, sides parallel. Dull greenish-yellow, thickly marked above 

 and below with small blackish punctures, those on front half of pronotum 

 sparsely, irregularly placed, those on vertex, ventrals and apical third 

 of corium more or less condensed to form small blackish spots or blotches ; 

 narrow median line of head and pronotum and narrow side margins of 

 pronotum calloused, smooth and pale; membrane dull black; basal third 

 of each connexival yellow, apical third black, its middle pale with black 

 dots; legs greenish-yellow, the femora thickly dotted with fuscous, the 

 tibiae more sparsely so. Basal joint of antennae as long as head. Pro- 

 notum with side margins feebly crenulate; basal angles obtusely rounded. 

 Other characters as in key. Length, 13 — 15 mm. 



