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Fig. 43. Pelocoris femoratus Palisot de Beauvois, — (a) dorsal view, (b) 

 front view of head, (c) lateral view of head; all greatly enlarged. Drawing 

 by Dr. Philip Garman. 



the victims of its voracity. Here, too, it breeds and fastens its 

 glistening white ova on the stems or leaves of Myriophyllum and 

 other fine-leaved aquatic plants. In from twenty-two to twenty- 

 seven days the little bug hatches from this egg and after moulting 

 five times in eighty-seven days, he is full grown and equipped for 

 the serious business of life. Although, owing to oviposition being 

 continuous, nymphs in several stages may be taken together, there 

 is no positive evidence that there is more than one, or at most two 

 broods in the course of a summer. The species is reported to 

 range from Canada to South America. As most of the descrip- 



