HEMIPTERA. 



boxes or frames covered with netting. After the plants have ob- 

 tained a good start they are not easily destroyed by this bug. 



J Ictapodins fcmoratus (Fig. 1 84) is a rep- 

 resentative of a group which contains the 

 -t members of this family. This 

 speci -tributed from North Carolina 



iorida and Mexico. It was observed 

 t>y 1'rof. T release to destroy the Cotton- 

 worm (Alt!: 



Family XXXIII. PI.NTAK >MIIU-:.* 



With the rcntatomidic we reach a 

 series of families, four in number, in which 

 the antennae are five-jointed. I have 

 found no exception to this character 

 within the United States, although there FIG. i9 4 ..vetat*/iii* /tmor*t*t. 



e , . , , , (From Glover.) 



are forms which occur just south of our 



border in which the antenna,- are only three- or four-jointed. This 

 group of insects is very easily recognized ; but the student may 

 have at first a little difficulty in separating the families. The 

 body is short, broad, and rather thick The scutellum is al- 



s large; we find two types of this part, each char. 

 of two families. The first type is presented by the lYnta- 

 tom i Cydnida,- ; here the scutellum is more or lc-s flat- 



tened, and triangular in outlim attenuated posteriorly. In 



:i of these families the lateral borders of the scutellum 

 furnished with a groove into which the wing-cover fits when not in 

 use. 



The form of body presented by the invat majority of the num- 

 bers of the lYntatnmid.i- i- well shown by Fig. 

 M It is broad, short, and but slightly convex ; tl 

 '1 prothorax forr i.^le. In th; 



the tibia; are i. . e,r are fumMied \\ ith \ cry 



short spines. This i. th< n 

 separating this from the following family. Of the 

 F penuVmd A lYntatomidx, ' -HIS in inch occurs in 



M< un other e :m^ havi- only 



ointcd antennae. 

 As with the C- he members of this family vary greatly in 



Pcntatflmidat. Pentitoma : f.ntt (wt'rrt). five ; tomt (tony), tec 



