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plant. Quite in accord with the foregoing, Mr. J. G. Sanders reared 
adults March 30, and again April 25, 1908, from Cyperus ezaltatus, 
introduced from Egypt and growmg on the department farm at 
Arlington, Va. 
The cultivated food plants are corn, rice, and peanuts, in impor- 
tance- according to the order given. 
DESCRIPTION AND LIFE HISTORY. 
THE EGG. 
(Fig. 18.) 
The egg appears to have been first observed by Mr. A. N. Caudell, 
who noted the female ovipositing at Stillwater, Okla., July 18, 
1895. The egg was described as white, 1.5 mm. long and half as 
wide, oblong-oval in shape. Mr. E. O. G. Kelly, who studied the 
species carefully at Wellington, 
Kans., found eggs deposited June 
17, 1911, to be ‘‘white,” 1.5 mm. 
long, one-third as wide, and ellip- 
tical in form. 
Dr. Chittenden described the egg 
as found at Arlington, Va., as con- 
siderably larger, measuring 2.2 to 
2.3 mm. in length and only 0.8 to 
0.9mm. indiameter. The outline 
is subreniform-elliptical, one side 
having a tendency to straightness 
along the greater portion of its 
length. The color is dull, slightly 
yellowish white. The surface is 
nearly smooth, with faint reticula- 
tion showing in very limited areas. 
The variation in size of the egg has Fic. 1s —The “curlew bug”: Egg as placed in 
apewecm peerved~by Mr. Ti fas, Se 
Smith, in North Carolina. as 
Mr. Kelly, in his studies, found eggs from June 16 to September 11, 
a period of nearly 3 months. The egg period varied from 4 to 6 days 
in June, in July 5, and from 6 to 8 days in September. In one case 
58 eggs were secured from one female, and there was a possibility 
that she might exceed this number. 
Mr. Vernon King and the author found ovipositing adults and 
half-grown larve on Harveys Neck, about 15 miles southeast of 
Hertford, N. C., on June 20, 1911. This would indicate that ovi- 
position was in progress about June 1. Mr. Jas. A. Hyslop, of this 
bureau, and Mr. R. I. Smith of the North Carolina Agricultural 








