INJURIOUS TO CUCUMBER, SQUASH AND MELON 121 

 The Melon Leaf-Bug 



Pycnode es quadrimaculatus Guerin-Meneville 



This leaf-bug has been reported as seriously injuring melons, 

 squashes and beans in x\rizona. The adult bug is about ^ 

 inch in length, black, mottled with gray and whitish. The 

 legs are pale yellow with the outer two fifths of the hind femora 

 black. The life history has not been recorded. The injury is 

 caused by the feeding punctures of the insects. The adults 

 are very active and difficult to hit with a spray. No satis- 

 factory method of control has been devised. 



The Southern Leaf-Footed Plant-Bug 



Leptoglossus phyllopus Linngeus 



In the southern states, tomato, eggplant, melon, potato and 

 artichoke are often injured by the feeding punctures of a 

 chocolate-brown bug closely related to the 

 squash bug. This insect is also well 

 known to fruit-growers from its habit of 

 puncturing oranges, peaches, plums and 

 pears, causing them to decay. The adult 

 (Fig. 75) is between -J and f inch in 

 length. The hind tibiae are flattened and 

 greatly expanded. The edge of the ex- 

 panded portion is notched and toothed 

 and flecked with yellowish white so as to 

 resemble a bit of dried leaf. The wings Fig. 75. — The southern 



1 ,1 •1111 11 '1 leaf-footed plant-bug 



are crossed near the middle by a yellowish (x H). 



white band. The adults hibernate and 



in the spring may be found in abundance on tlie yellow 



thistle, where they deposit their eggs end to end in a row 



along a stem or the midrib of a leaf. The egg is golden 



