CATALOGUE OF INSECTS. 



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They are firm in texture, broadly oval, the edges of the thorax usually well 

 marked, angulate or even drawn out into spines or spurs, as a whole flattened 

 above The beak is long, 4-jointed and the species are 

 vegetable feeders as a whole ; though some are largely 

 predatory and others seem to take whatever they can ge t 

 of either plant or animal tissue. Many of them are com- 

 mon, but few of them are really troublesome on cultivated 

 plants. The best known species on the economic side is 

 the Harlequin Cabbage bug, which, fortunately, has not 

 gained a firm foothold in our State, though it occurs 

 sparingly in South Jersey and has once appeared in some 

 numbers in Camden County. 

 In this family the " buggy " odor is well developed. 



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Fig. 55.— A Pentatomid 

 and its beak. 



Sub-family ASOPINJE. 



STIRETRUS Lap. 



Fig. 56. — Stiretr us anchora; a, adult; b, pupa. 



S. anchora Fab. Southern N. J. (Sin), Hackettstown ( U. S Ag ), James- 

 burg, VII, 4 (Ds). This is a predatory form, sometimes attacking aspar- 

 agus slugs. 



PERILLTJS Stal. 



P. confluens H-S. Riverton, IV, 16 (Jn), Cramer Hill, VI (Greene). 



P. circumcinctus Stal. Merchantville, VI, 29 (Ss), Hackettstown (U. S. 



Ag i 

 P. exaptus Say. Madison (Pr). 



MINEUS Stal. 

 M. bioculatus Fabr. Jamesburg. Y, 11. 



