799 A. FE. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 387 
Tomato Leaf-bug. (Mormidia lugens (Fab.) Stal.) Howard, Insect 
Book, pl. xxx1, figs. 3, 4. 
Mr. Geo. A. Bishop, in a recent letter, states that this insect is 
injurious to the tomato-plant and beans. Common in U. States, 
Mexico, and W. Indies. 
Capsids. The small Leaf-bug figured (Lygus, pl. xcix, fig. 17, @) 
is pale green with a greenish yellow head, and an obscure, oblique 
brownish spot near the base of the fore wings, and some ill-defined 
spots of the same at the tip. Length, 5™™. 
Orthops, sp., t. Heidemann. 
Mr. Geo. A. Bishop writes that this bug does considerable damage 
to peaches by puncturing the surface with its proboscis. 
Tarnished Plant-bug. (Lygus pratensis (l.) var.=L. lineolaris 
P.-Beauy.; Saunders, Ins. Injur. to Fruit, p. 147, fig. 155. 
Figure 174. 
This species was sent by Mr. Mowbray in October. In the United 
States it is injurious to strawberries, fruit trees, etc. Head, between 
eyes, yellowish, with three narrow black lines convergent backward ; 
prothorax dull brown, varied with blackish and yellow and narrowly 
edged with yellow ; about six alternating, black and yellow, ill- 
defined, small, divergent spots ; scutellum acute, larger than broad, 
with dark brown and chestnut or yellowish brown convergent mark- 
ings ; thickened part of front wings dark brown varied with chest- 
nut, and terminated by a yellow spot ; membranous part dusky 
gray; abdomen blackish below, with a lunate yellow spot on each 
side ; legs chestnut, banded with black; antennz black. Length, 
4.75™™", Identified by Mr. O. Heidemann. 
Trigonotylus ruficornis (Fall.) Fieber, Europ. Hemip., 243; Uhler, 
in Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey Terr., iii, No. 2, p. 413. 
A small, slender bug, 5™" long. Thorax and abdomen, above and 
below, light greenish, with a geminate, dusky, median dorsal line on 
the thorax ; fore wings yellowish at base, membrane purplish white ; 
legs pale drab; antenne long, pale lilac. Identified by Mr. O. 
Heidemann. October, L. Mowbray. Europe and North America. 
Denver, Col., Ubler. 
The family Berytide (Stilt-bugs) is represented by a single slender- 
legged species (Corizus hyalinus), recorded by Jones, 1876. In the 
United States it ranges westward at least as far as Colorado. 
