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fied cheap petroleum, mixed with 1,000 parts of water. It 

 can be introduced into holes and cracks in houses, and sprin- 

 kled on plants. The cracks of bedsteads may be 

 filled with mercury; and benzine will also effectually 

 dislodge them, as well as boiling water. The benzine 

 may be applied by means of a surgical instrument 

 called the Atomizer. 

 In Syrtis the head is small, compressed laterally, and the 

 fore legs are raptorial, thus allying the genus with Reduvius. 

 Syrtis (Phymata) erosa Fabr. (Fig. 556) has swollen fore legs, 

 and a deep groove on the head ; it is useful in devouring 

 Aphides. 



Tig. 557. 



In Tingis the beak reaches to the end of the breast, and the 

 tt>/e legs are simple, the thorax and wing-covers are spread 

 out letif-likc, and the species are of small size. T. //////,/</ 

 Ilcrrich-Schaeffef is abundant on the willow. T. ////.sf/-/<W///.s 

 Richter (Fig. 557, upper and under side, magnified twenty 

 diameters) is a Ceylonese species. It "sticks close to the 

 under side of the BringaU leaf, and there undergoes all its 

 changes, from the larval to the perfect state. The larvae are 

 black." (Science-Gossip, p. S4, 3869.) 



