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central one more persistent and leading on the posterior margin to 
a pale, shiny, impunctate spot; scutellum usually dark, coarsely 
punctate. Legs pale yellow, inclining more or less to brown; cox 
dark at base, pale at tip; trochanters pale; front and middle femora 
spotted more or less confluently on the outside with brown; tibie 
ringed with brown at the base. _Hemelytra either colorless, trans- 
parent, and prismatic, or distinctly tinged with dingy yellow; 
shallowly punctate and very finely pubescent. Venter piceous, 
minutely and regularly covered with gray pubescence; female dingy 
yellow, except at base; female paler than male, and generally 
larger. Average length, .13 inch. Described from numerous speci- 
mens.” 
In the strawberry field it can be attacked, if necessary, by the 
measures recommended against the tarnished plant-bug. 
Tae Rep SpPripEr. 
(Tetranychus telarius, L.) 
Class Aracunipa. Order Acarina. Family Acaripm. 
This abundant and everywhere well-known pest, although not an 
insect, belonging instead to the mite family of the class Arachnida, 
may be mentioned here merely to call attention to the fact that it . 
is reported as sometimes injuring the strawberry. Its method of 
attack is too well known to gardeners to need special description. 
It may be sought where the leaves of the strawberry are observed 
to turn gray or yellow without any cause observable on ordinary 
inspection. If present, the mites will be revealed to close scrutiny 
as numerous moving greenish or reddish points (each usually with a 
black blotch on either side), which, under a glass, are seen to have 
eight legs, and to be without distinction of thorax and abdomen. 
Spraying with soap-suds, or dusting with flowers of sulphur, are 
the usual remedies for this pest. 
B. InsurING THE FLOWER OR FLOWER-STEM. 
1. An exposed insect. 
Tae Frea Necro Bue (Thyreocoris pulicarius, Germar). 
Order Hemiptera. Family CoriImMELnIDz. 
[Plate X, Fig. 6.] 
The economic relations of this species are very similar to those of 
the tarnished plant bug, soon to be described. Like that species, 
this insect withdraws the sap from the freshest and most succulent. 
parts of a considerable variety of plants, including the strawberry, 
and often occurs in numbers sufficient to do appreciable harm. 
