368 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



The Harlequin Cabbage-bug * 



Southern truckers have been familiar with the harlequin 

 cabbage-bug, " calico-back," " terrapin-bug," or " fire-bug," as 



PIG. 267. The harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica Hahn.): a, 

 eggs enlarged; b, nymphs, more enlarged;- d, adults seen from above 

 and below enlarged; e, head and beak of same; /, parasite of eggs 

 enlarged; bugs and eggs (a) on leaf, natural size. (After W. G. Johnson.) 



it is variously called, for the past generation. A native of 

 Mexico and Central America, it migrated into Texas about 1864 



* Murgantia histrionica Hahn. Family Pentatomidce. See F. H. Chitten, 

 deu, Circular 103, Bureau Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agr.; R. I. Smith, 

 Journal Economic Entomology, Vol. II, p. 108. 



