326 



FN SECTS INFESTING THE CABBAGE. 



Remedy. — Should these caterpillars appear in large num- 

 bers, see No. 14. 



CHAPTER CCXXIII. 



The Harlequin Cabbage-bug. (Cal.) 

 ( StnirJiia hii<t rionica. —Hixhn.) 



Order, Hemitteka; 

 Sul)-order, Homoi'tera ; 



Family, Scutellerid^. 



[Living upon cabbages, radishes, turnijis, etc. ; a wingless 

 greenish bug, marked \\ith l)lack, or n winged V)Ug, marked 

 with l)lue-black and orange.] 



The eggs (Fig. 332 c, d. and r,) from which these bugs hatch, 

 are usually deposited on tlic under side of a leaf, in two or 

 three rows of half a dozen each. They are of an elongate-oval 

 form, light green or white, and marked with two black circles 

 and a V)lack dot, the latter placed above the lower circle (Fig. 

 332c/.) They are placed upon one end, and on the upper end 

 is a crescent-shaped black spot. (Fig. 332^.) 



The perfect insects (Fig. 333) are about five lines long by 

 three lines broad, and prettily marked with blue-lilack and 

 polished orange. They pass the Winter in some sheltered 

 place. Unlike most other plant-bugs, they do not give forth a 

 disagreeable odor when crushed. 



Pig. 332. 



Fig. 333. 





Fig. 332.— Larva, Pupa and Eggs of Harlequin Cabbage- 

 bug ; r(, the larva, enlarged — colors, pale green and black ; h, 

 the pupa, enlarged — colors, greenish or yellow and black ; d. 

 side view of eggs, enlarged — colors, white and black ; c, the 

 same, natural size ; e, the eggs as seen from above, enlarged. 



Fig. 333. — Harlequin Cabbage-bug — colors, orange and black ; 



