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WRIGHT & BATES, 
73 Hanover St., Boston, Mass., 
ASSOCIATE EDITORS. 
Address all communications for this department as above. 
Editorial Notes. 
We are pleased to learn that Prof. C. H. Fern- 
aid, of the Maine State College, has now in press 
a work on the “Sphingidee of New England.” 
Such a book has long been needed and will be 
hailed with delight by those who have hitherto 
experienced so much difficulty in determining 
their specimens. He has the largest known col- 
lection of the Zortricide of the world, and of the 
Pyralide, Tineina and Pterophoridae of North 
America. His name will be a sufficient guaran- 
tee as to the merit of his work, and we hope it 
will meet with the success it deserves. 

Practical Entomology. 
BY WRIGHT AND BATES, 73 HANOYER SY., BOSTON. 
(Continued from page 45.) 

HEMIPTERA,. 
PrecuLiAntries: Wing structure various. With 
some members of this sub-order the wings are 
entirely, wanting, some have the anteriors more 
or less modified into corneous coverings, while 
some have membraneous wings. 
On account of these differences, there have 
been formed two sub-divisions, Hemiptera-Ho- 
moptera having four membraneous wings, and the 
Llemiptera-Heteroptera having the other 
modifications. 
The mouth parts are formed for sucking and 
piercing, and are without jaws. Transformations 
incomplete. Larva and pupa like the imago, 
but without wings and smaller. 
Locanities. The <Aphide and the Coccida 
(plant and bark lice,) infest the leaves and bark 
of plants, where they often do much damage. 
The Notonectida, (water-boatmen) the Ploteres, 
(water bugs) and the Nepidw, with some of the 
Reduviide ave aquatic and are to be found only 
in and about water and wet places. 
The 
known to require comment. 
The Pediculina (lice) and the Mallophaga (bird 
lice) are parasitic, and are found on various mem- 
bers of the animal kingdom. 
The (ieadaria (cicadas) emerge from the grownd 
in the summer and may be taken on the trunks 
and in the foliage of trees. 
various 
Membranacei (bed bugs) are too well 
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The Cicadellina (leaf hoppers) and the Corisie 
(chinch-bugs) are very abundant in warm weather 
on the flowers and foliage. 
The members of this order are found, with very 
few exceptions, only in warm weather, when 
they can be taken, often in large numbers, by 
sweeping the fields and the foliage of trees, but 
will sometimes be taken under the bark in winter. 
The aquatic varieties are secured by dragging 
the ponds and rivers, and by sifting the mud 
taken from the pools and ditches. 

Sphingidae of New England. 
Vv. s. Myops.—Sm, and Abb, 
Palpi, brown edged with dull yellow; head and 
thorax chocolate brown, with a roseate tinge, the 
latter with a dull yellow dorsal stripe. Abdo- 
men brown, spotted with dull yellow, posterior 
edges of segments darker brown. Anterior wings 
chocolate-brown, irregularly tinged with rosy, 
especially toward the base, where there is a small 
black spot. A faint rosy-brown line crosses the 
base of disc, followed by a chocolate-brown patch, 
broadest and darkest anteriorly, inclincd toward 

the anal angle and joined by a line or patch of 
the same color extending to the inner margin 
toward the base. Hind margin brown, preceded 
by a band and two or three undulating lines of 
the same hue, fainter toward the anal angle and 
separated by lighter lines, tinged with rosy. An 
apical V-shaped, rosy-bluish line, with apex 
toward the base and preceded by a dull yellow 
spot; a dull yellow spot surmounted by one or 
two black spots above the anal angle. Posterior 
wings dull yellow, with a broad brown patch ex- 
tending from near the middle to the costal and 
outer margins, a yellow spot on tip, and above it 
two short rosy-blue lines which disappeared at 
the edge of the yellow central patch, but show 
more faintly after crossing the ocellus. Ocellus 
black, with large pale-blue pupil. 
Under side chocolate-brown; anterior wings, 
with markings similar to upper side, with the ex- 
ception of a brownish-yellow patch, extending 
from near the outer end of dise to the base, costal 
margin light brown, Posterior wings more mot- 
tled with brown than on upper side, and the 
bluish Jines are continued across the ocellus. 
Mature larvie. Head and body bluish green, with 
arow of sub-dorsal and stigmatical reddish-brown 
spots. Six oblique lateral bright yellow bands, 
with two thoracic, sub-dorsal, yellowish lines. 
Yellow lines on sides of head and horn. Pupze 
dark brown, smooth, cylindrico-conical and acute. 
Transformation subterranean, 
Food plants: Leaves of the wild cherry. 
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