34 THE AGRICULTURAL PESTS OF INDIA. 



nature of its excrement, the pellets becoming enveloped 

 in a pale rose-coloured mould, the Dactylium roseum, 

 which soon destroys their germinating power. 



Another species of smaller size also injures the poppy 

 seed. E. T.; J. Scott. 



Bug is a popular term applied to several genera of 

 noxious insects, usually to those of two families of 

 Hemiptera. Cimex lectularius, the bed bug, one of the 

 Cimicidae, belongs to the order Hemiptera and to the family 

 Geocores ; they are very troublesome in Indian houses. 

 Notonecta glauca, of Europe, is a species of water bug, 

 commonly known as the boat-fly. Plant bugs of the 

 order Heteroptera, families Scutata, Coreida?, and Phy- 

 tocoridae, live upon plants, trees, and shrubs, and feed 

 upon the juices which they suck out of the soft tissues, 

 many of them attacking juicy fruits. It was the bugs 

 and the borers chiefly that ruined the coffee industry 

 of Ceylon, with the loss to the Europeans engaged in 

 it of millions of gold. Other insects active in the work 

 there have been the mealy bug, Pseudococcus adonidum ; 

 a black bug, Lecanium nigrum ; a moth, Agrotis segetum ; 

 the white bug, a species of Ancylonychus, one of the 

 Coleoptera, and the brown or scaly bug, Lecanium coffeoe ; 

 but the Aphides or plant-lice, with species of the Lepido- 

 ptera or butterflies, and the moth Phymatea punctata, 

 have aided in the ruin. In Europe, Lecanium hespericlum, 

 one of the Coccidse, attacks the orange, and Coccus 

 adonidum is often mischievous in hot-houses. The stones 

 of the Cordia myxa of the Kainaon forests are sucked by 

 a large red bug. 



A green bug of Burma, one of the Tingidsc, is very 

 injurious to fruit. They suck the juice of oranges through 

 the skin. The paddy bug of Burma sucks the paddy 



