PACKARD.] HARLEQUIN CABBAGE-BUG. 755 



-curled leaves beiug sometimes densely covered with them, of all sizes." 

 Dr. Fitch shows that it was known in this country as early as 1791. 



Description. — These ivinged females lueasure 0.075 in length to the tip of the abdomen, 

 and 0.14 to the end of the closed wings, and their width from tip to tip of the extended 

 -wings is 0.18. They are of a dull greenish color, varying to pale, dnll yellowish, and 

 largely % aried with black. The head, neck, and fore body on its upper side are black and 

 shining. The horns, or antenuce, are two-thirds the length of the body, more slender 

 toward their tips, and black. On the neck one or two pale yellowish bauds are some- 

 times perceptible. The hind body is usually pale green, with dark-green or black 

 bands on the back, which are often narrowed or somewhat brokeu asunder in the 

 middle, and have one or two dots or small spots at their outer ends in a longitudinal 

 row; the honey-tubes scarcely equal the distance to the tip and are black, with their 

 bases pale yellowish. The legs are black ; with the basalhalf of the shanks and of the 

 thighs pale yellowish. The wings are hyaline and iridescent, their stigma pale green- 

 ish, aud their veins black or dark brown. The distance between the first and second 

 veins at their base is a little more than half that between them at their tips ; third 

 vein farther from the second at the tip than at the base, and a little nearer to the 

 second at the base than the second is to the first ; first fork a little nearer to the second 

 fork than to the third vein, and a little nearer to the third vein than the third is to the 

 second ; second fork very little neai-er to the fourth vein than to the first fork ; fourth 

 vein slightly curved, and very little nearer to the second fork than to the tip of the 

 rib-vein. 



Remedies. — When specially destructive, Dr. Fitch recommends driving 

 short stakes and spreading a sheet, a large piece of canvas, or old 

 carpeting over as many plants as the cloth will cover, aud fumigating 

 with tobacco until the space is filled with smoke. The plants may then 

 be cleaned with water from a watering-pot. The remainder of the cab- 

 bage-patch can be treated in the same way. Soap-suds will only kill 

 the young lice, leaving the old ones unhurt. " Watering the plants 

 with equal parts of tobacco-water and lime-water is said to be the best 

 mode of destroying the Aphides in gardens; and if plants be washed 

 with tobacco-water alone — about half a pound of tobacco to a half-gallon 

 of hot water — it will kill the Aphides; aud if applied warm, it will kill 

 them the sooner." — (Fitch.) 



The Common Gahdex Plant-Bug, Lygus Uneolaris (Beauvois) ; Capsus lincolaris 

 Beauvois. (Plate LXVI, Fig. 14.) — Puctniiug with its beak the cabiiage aud all sorts of 

 succulent garden-vegetables and the shoots of shrubs and fruit-trees, causing them to 

 wither and shrivel ; flying from A^jril to October, and clustering on the flowers of the 

 cabbage in summer. 



Though this plant-bug is indiscriminate in its attacks upon all sorts 

 of garden-vegetables, more complaints have been made of its injuries to 

 the cabbage than an^^ other vegetable. It is especially abundant during 

 warm, dry seasons. On examining the insect, a long, slender beak will 

 be found resting on the breast ; this it inserts in the leaf or shoot and 

 sucks the sap. Frequent repetitions by great numbers oX these bugs 

 cause the leaves to wilt and die, and as they abound during a season of 

 drought when the plants are weak, they are at times very destructive. 

 Mr. Kiley bas found that it injures the tender shoots of pear-trees, while 

 it has long been known to attack asters, dahlias, marigold.s, balsams, and 

 other flowers. The larva; appear in the spring and acquire the rudi- 

 ments of wings late in ^lay or early in June in New York, becoujing 

 fully fledged by the 10th of June, according to Fitcli. Mr. Uhler says 

 that it is almost as common in the cultivated districts of Colorado as it 

 is in the Eastern United States. I have found it to be common in Col- 

 orado and Utah. For remedies and other facts see page 



The Harlequin Cabbage-Bug, Murf/antia histrionica (Hahu).— Destroying, in the 

 Southern States, by its punctures, cabbages, turnips, radishes, mustard, and other cru- 

 ciferous plants ; a bright black and orange-colored bug. 



This pretty bug has been found to be very destructive in Texas by 



