A BtTG REPORTED AS ENEMY OF BOLL WEEVIL. 



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the first insertion of its captor's beak, and then ceased to move. The 

 power of the bite of this insect was well illustrated upon the writer 

 while collecting specimens. One adult inserted 1 is bill in the end of 

 the thumb. The pain at first was not so great as that from the sting 

 of a bee or wasp, but in a few moments it was much greater than the 

 writer had ever experienced from any hymenopteron's sting. It 

 continued unabated for over an hour, and the spot was tender to 

 the touch for two weeks. 



Altho locusts, bees, wasps, and an occasional moth were eaten, Cole- 

 optera and Diptera were preferred. The following tables give the 

 food for a number of days of a nymph of Apiomerus spissipes^ and, 

 for comparison, the food of another reduviid (Sinea diademct Fab.): 

 Food of nymph of Apiomerus spissipes in third instar. 





Pepper weevils (Anthonomus seneo- 

 tinclus). 



Boll weevils {Anthonomus grandis). 



Date. 



Number 

 added. 



Number 

 killed. 



Number 

 alive 

 from 



previous 

 day. 



Total 



number 



alive. 



Number 

 added. 



Number 

 killed. 



Number 

 alive 

 from 



previous 

 day. 



Total 



number 



alive. 



October 16.. 



3 

 5 

 7 

 5 

 7 

 20 

 

 

 

 5 

 

 

 

 5 

 







3 



5 

 7 

 5 

 8 

 21 

 10 

 5 

 3 

 5 

 5 

 3 

 2 

 5 

 3 



1 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 6 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 2 

 1 

 

 

 







17 



3 

 5 



5 

 3 

 7 



11 

 4 

 2 

 3 

 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 2 





 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 9 

 5 

 3 

 

 5 

 3 

 2 

 

 3 



3 

 3 

 3 

 3 





19 





20 





21.. \ 





23 





24 





25 





26 





28 



6 



30 



4 



November 2 



3 



4 



3 



6 



3 



8 



3 







Total.. . 





50 





1 



3 













1 







The nymph did not feed after November 8. On December 1 it was 

 placed in a cool room for hibernation, but must have died shortly 

 afterwards, for on January 25, 1906, it was found dead and shrunken. 



Food of an adult Sinea diadema. « 





Pepper weevils {Anthonomus seneo- 

 tinctus). 



Boll weevils {Anthonomus grandis). 



Date. 



Number 

 added. 



Number 

 killed. 



Number 

 alive 



from pre- 

 vious 

 day. 



Total 



number 



alive. 



Number 

 added. 



Number 

 killed. 



Number 

 alive 



from pre- 

 vious 

 day. 



Total 



number 



alive. 



October 16 



3 

 5 

 7 

 5 

 5 



14 

 9 



11 

 

 5 

 1 

 2 

 

 







3 

 5 



7 



7 



5 



15 



13 



12 



5 



6 



6 



5 



2 



3 









"" 



17 



3 

 5 

 5 

 2 

 4 



11 

 12 

 8 

 3 

 1 

 3 

 2 

 2 





 

 2 

 

 1 

 4 

 1 

 4 

 1 

 5 

 3 

 3 

 3 











19 











20 





' 





21 





i 





23 











24 . 











25 











26 



i 



5 

 4 

 3 

 











1 



28 



1 

 4 

 4 

 1 



2 







1 

 1 

 3 



1 



5 



30 



5 



November 2 



4 



4 



3 



6 



1 









Total 





61 





1 



12 1 











1 









a The specim^en died November 10. 



