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  shown 
  that 
  his 
  strictures 
  were 
  based 
  upon 
  misapprehension 
  

   and 
  want 
  of 
  information 
  (^^). 
  

  

  The 
  complete 
  metamorphoses 
  are 
  known 
  in 
  very 
  few 
  species. 
  

   Of 
  the 
  following, 
  however, 
  conjsiderable 
  information 
  is 
  

   recorded, 
  viz., 
  Murgantia 
  liidrionica 
  (^"), 
  Bathycoella 
  

   thala^siim 
  (^^), 
  and 
  Tedocoris 
  lineola 
  (^*). 
  

  

  In 
  Mexico, 
  Euscliistus 
  spurculus 
  is 
  made 
  into 
  a 
  kind 
  of 
  

   flour 
  (^^) 
  and 
  eaten, 
  while 
  in 
  India, 
  Erthesina 
  fullo 
  (^^) 
  and 
  

   Aspongopus 
  nepalcnsis 
  (■^^) 
  form 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  diet 
  of 
  certain 
  

   natives, 
  the 
  last 
  named 
  species 
  being 
  mixed 
  with 
  rice. 
  

  

  The 
  Cimicidae 
  are 
  probably 
  extensively 
  parasitized. 
  Phasia 
  

   sp. 
  and 
  Ocyptera 
  hicolor^ 
  among 
  the 
  Diptera, 
  have 
  been 
  noted; 
  

   Eucorysses 
  grandis 
  has 
  been 
  recorded 
  as 
  the 
  host 
  of 
  a 
  stylopid, 
  

   while 
  a 
  Telenomus 
  destroys 
  the 
  eggs 
  of 
  Eurygaster 
  and 
  an 
  

   Encyrtus 
  those 
  of 
  Murgantia. 
  

  

  Oechalia. 
  

  

  Of 
  this 
  genus, 
  grisea 
  was 
  described 
  by 
  Burmeister, 
  pacificu 
  

   and 
  patruetis 
  by 
  Stal. 
  Unable 
  to 
  find 
  differential 
  characters 
  in 
  

   the 
  adults, 
  I 
  followed 
  Blackburn 
  in 
  recognizing 
  only 
  one 
  

   species. 
  Lately 
  however 
  my 
  doubts 
  have 
  been 
  revived 
  and 
  in- 
  

   creased 
  by 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  two 
  types 
  of 
  ova. 
  

  

  Both 
  are 
  pale 
  bronzy 
  green. 
  In 
  the 
  first, 
  the 
  upper 
  rim 
  of 
  

   the 
  egg 
  is 
  furnished 
  with 
  from 
  9 
  to 
  11 
  whitish, 
  black-tipped 
  

   capitate 
  processes 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  ornamentation 
  on 
  the 
  opercu- 
  

   lum 
  or 
  egg-shell. 
  These 
  ova 
  were 
  found 
  deposited 
  on 
  a 
  fern 
  

   leaf. 
  In 
  the 
  second, 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  processes 
  was 
  greater, 
  

   ranging 
  from 
  14 
  to 
  16, 
  and 
  beside 
  a 
  circular 
  row 
  of 
  about 
  14 
  

   short 
  black 
  teeth 
  on 
  the 
  operculum, 
  the 
  sides 
  were 
  reticulated 
  

  

  (11) 
  Kirkaldy 
  " 
  Upom 
  Maternal 
  Solicitude 
  in 
  Non-social 
  In- 
  

   sects," 
  1903 
  Entom. 
  XXXVI 
  113, 
  and 
  1904 
  Smithson. 
  Rep. 
  for 
  1903, 
  p. 
  

   577 
  (with 
  bibliography) 
  , 
  see 
  also 
  Schouteden 
  1904 
  Rev. 
  Univ. 
  Bruxelles, 
  

   VIII, 
  771. 
  And 
  Dodd 
  "Notes 
  on 
  Maternal 
  Instinct 
  in 
  Rhynchota," 
  1904 
  

   T. 
  E. 
  S. 
  London 
  483-6, 
  PI. 
  28. 
  

  

  (12) 
  Howard 
  1895 
  Circ. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Div. 
  Ent., 
  (2) 
  X, 
  1-2; 
  1 
  fig. 
  

   (13; 
  Schouteden 
  1906 
  Z. 
  Wiss. 
  InsketenbioL, 
  II, 
  82-8, 
  figs. 
  1-9. 
  

  

  (14) 
  Dodd, 
  see 
  No. 
  11. 
  

  

  (15) 
  Signoret 
  1877 
  B. 
  S. 
  E. 
  France 
  (5) 
  VII 
  p. 
  XXXVI. 
  

  

  (16) 
  Distant 
  1878 
  P. 
  E. 
  S. 
  London 
  p. 
  LVII. 
  

  

  (17) 
  Waterhouse 
  1900 
  Entom. 
  XXXIV 
  251. 
  

  

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