94 : THE STINK-BUG FAMILY. 
of an inch in length, is of a tawny yellowish-gray color, more 
or less thickly dotted with brown. The wing-covers are fre- 
quently red at their tips, and the true glossy wings have a brown 
spot at their extremities. The under side is whitish, with a 
row of black dots along the middle of the abdomen, and another 
on each side. 
The insect is very common during autumn, being found in 
large numbers on different trees and shrubs; it is no doubt a 
very useful one. It has a stout and long beak, which gives it 2 
great advantage in holding and piercing other insects, and it 
must also possess a wonderful strength in this flexible organ, 
since it is able to lift with it an insect twice its weight and hold 
it straight forward while sucking it dry. 
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Fic. 93.—Stiretrus anchorago Fab. After Riley. Var. fimbriata 
Div. of Entomology, Dept. of Agriculture. Say. 
To the sub-family Asopina belong a number of very beauti- 
ful bugs, one of which is shown in the illustration, Fig. 93. 
Stiretrus anchorago Fab., in one of its varieties, (fimbriata Say), 
is not a common insect in our state, but is found from time to 
time. “The insect is of a glossy steel-blue color, with orange 
marks on the front and sides of the pronotum, also a band at 
the base, and a narrow margin at the end of the scutellum, be- 
sides the margins of the venter, large spots on its disk, and some 
spots on the sternum, all of the same color. Here the scutellum 
