201 



rows ill iiiidsuiiinier, and remain ovci' winter, hatching the following 

 May. The adults appear in .June and disappear by the end of July, 

 there being but one brood a year. 



Fio. 206. The P>jur-line<l 

 Leaf-bug, Pdrilocapsus linen- 

 lux, e^Ks in currant .stem, and 

 one greatly enlarged. fC!hit- 

 tenden, U. S. Dept. of .Agricul- 

 ture.) 



KlO. 207. PUiffiof/nalhuii ohgcuruH. Length about one 

 eighth inch. 



PL.\(iIOG.\.\THUS OB.SCURUM Uhl. 



Examjjles of this little leaf-bug (Fig. 207) ha\'e been ol>.served In' us 

 several times in fall with their beaks inserted in corn kernels at the 

 tip of the ear, in one case as many as half a dozen on a single ear. No 

 appreciable injury was noticed. 



The species is shaped much like the tarnished plant-bug, but is 

 smaller, dull blackish and yellowish, without definite markings. It is 

 generally distributed over the United States east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and is recorded from a considerable variety of plants. The data 

 of our collections indicate the development of two successive broods 

 and hibernation in the egg. We have found it occasionally on sugar- 

 beets, and it is therefon; discussefl in the Twenty-first Report ([). 89). 



