THE GREEN SOLDIER-BUG. 



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DISTRIBUTION. 



Mr. E. P. Van Duzee ^ writes as follows in regard to the geographical 

 distribution of the green soldier-bug : 



This is a showy but very common insect throughout the northeastern United States 

 and Canada. Toward the south its range extends through the Southern States and 

 West Indies to Brazil. 

 In the West it occurs 

 in Kansas, Iowa, Colo- 

 rado, Montana, Utah, 

 Arizona, and Texas, and 

 perhaps over all the 

 Western States. 



This is the most 

 CO mill on Pentato- 

 mid found on cot- 

 ton throughout our 

 Southern States, al- 

 though it is fre- 

 quently exceeded in 

 abundance locally 

 by other species. 



FOOD PLANTS. 



The green soldier- 

 bug, like the Penta- 

 tomid cotton pests 

 which have been 

 considered in the 

 foregoing pages, is a 

 very general feeder. 

 A correspondent of 

 the Division of En- 

 tomology in 1883 ^ 

 reported the insect 

 as occurring in 

 abundance in Flor- 

 ida on tomatoes, 

 egg-plant, turnip, 

 mustard, peas, and 

 oranges. Professor ^^^- ^^■ 

 Sanderson*^ has 

 compiled from the publications and correspondence files of the 

 Bureau of Entomology the following additional list of food plants 



« Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. XXX, p. 58, 1904. 



& Insects affecting the orange. By H. G. Hubbard, 1885, p. 160. 



c Bui. 57, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., pp. 47-49, 1906. 



The green soldier-bug: Njonph, fifth instar; light and dark 

 tj'pes. Enlarged 6 diameters. (Original.) 



