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Bates woods (No. 7678). It appears to feed upon a large variety of 

 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. Its normal habitat is probably 

 in open woods or the forest margin. Swezey ('04, pp. 8-9) gives 

 full references to the life history of this insect and a list of the food 

 plants. 



Tettig oniellid.e 



Aulacises irrorata Fabr. (PI. LVI, fig. 3.) 



A few specimens were taken, the collection data being as follows : 

 from an open glade in the lowland forest (Sta. IV, c) Aug. 20 (No. 

 J 17) ; and from the smaller branches of sassafras bushes (Sta. IV, c) 

 Aug. 22 (No. 143). 



This insect is often taken on grapes, and in the South on cotton. 

 Sanderson (Bull. 57, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 58. 1906) 

 describes briefly the egg-laying habits and figures the adult insect. 



Gypona pectoralis Spangb. 



This species was taken June 28, 191 1, in the Bates woods (Sta. 

 IV) by T. L. Hankinson (No. 7678). 



PENTATOMIDiE 



Buschistus fissilis Uhl. 



This bug was taken in Bates forest (Sta. IV) Aug. 22 (No. 

 124). It has been known to feed upon wheat (Webster, Rep. U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., 1885, p. 317). It also feeds upon corn, and on the moth 

 Aletia. It is parasitized by the proctotrypid Trissolctts euschisti 

 Ashm. (Olsen, in Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. 20, p. 52. 1912). 



Mormidea lug ens Fabr. 



A nymph of this bug was taken by T. L. Hankinson in the Bates 

 woods (Sta. IV) June 28, 191 1 (No. 7678). 



Hymenarcys nervosa Say. 



This insect was taken on the ground from among dead leaves and 

 decayed wood which had drifted to the mouth of a ravine in the low- 

 land forest (Sta. IV, c) Aug. 20 (No. 113). In the South this insect 

 feeds upon cotton. 



Miridm 



Lygus pratensis Linn. Tarnished Plant-bug. 



This bug was taken in the Bates woods (Sta. IV) June 28, 191 1, 

 by T. L. Hankinson (No. 7678). See prairie list, page 175. 



